LGA 1156 motherboard issues?

It's basically this,

A friend of mine needs an LGA 1156 motherboard because the USB ports on his current one just gave out.🙂

We tried searching on eBay, but came up empty. I don't quite get it—why is it so hard to find these? There are only a few listings available, and even then, they're usually bundled with a processor.

His CPU is an i5 750, though I suppose that might fit an LGA 1155 socket instead; sorry, I am not entirely sure about that.

Are there any new ones actually available for purchase?

It’s a rare socket because nobody really wants to part with them while they're still running high-end CPUs. It won't fit into an LGA 1155 slot, and I can't seem to find any new ones for sale anywhere... I guess your only real option is to ask someone selling a full rig if they'll throw in a motherboard, though they could probably just get more value by breaking it down into individual parts 😬

Honestly, money isn't his main issue here. That motherboard he blew out cost him $667, and it had some ridiculous red skull design on it—pretty tacky if you ask me. His overclock was sitting at 4.2GHz, too.

We managed to track something down on eBay. He’s a bit hesitant about buying parts like that online, but I guess he won't have much of a choice.

And which motherboard are we talking about?

Don't be clueless—just grab a PCI USB card. You can find them at $17 and a dozen other places, and that'll solve your problem

fadedorca66 said:Stop being foolish. Just get a PCI USB card; you can find them everywhere. $17 Finally, you fixed it.

Spot on and accurate.

I find it hard to believe that every single USB chip failed. How is that even possible?
Could the issue lie within the driver or the Windows Registry?

Is there a point to this?

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I ended up ordering a Gigabyte model off eBay for about $60.

By the way, it wasn't just an issue with the USB ports; sometimes it would act up during boot-up too. I flashed a new BIOS, but that didn't help, and I checked the capacitors—they seem fine.

It was clearly caused by excessive overclocking over a long period. This one from eBay is new, likely old stock. It isn't exactly a high-end overclocking model, but I expect it to perform well enough.