USB weirdness

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amdownzintel

Limp Gawd
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Ok so my friend has an emachine and here is the issue.

Certain USB devices that get plugged into the PC will shut the pc off in a matter of seconds and then windows will do a boot loop if the device is still plugged in. Normal things like mice and keyboards don't cause the effect, but bigger devices such as external HD's, or Ipods or what not will cause it. Not sure why? And yes if you unplug the device, windows will boot like normal

Things I have tried:

Uninstalled USB, then let it reinstall itself.
Different PSU
Restore points, just incase its software.
Reset BIOS

It was working fine for say 2 years, then just all of a sudden this, so I'm still thinking its probably software related, but ya never know. Also I'm going to try to do a repair install of Windows just incase. Also its windows XP SP3. USB ports are usb 2.0 using the ones in the back on the mobo.
 
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K it's fixed now, OS reinstall FTW. had a spare HD so installed windows on it and then tested it by plugging in an external HD again, works great. So some how he or windows managed to mess it up. Go go reformat.
 
I've been having similar issues for about 2 months with one system, and my main system started this morning. Looking up the error code I got it seems to relate to .NET 3.5 and/or Outlook. I did a repair of Outlook, we'll see.
 
ya weird thing on this guys pc is that there were no errors. nothing in event viewer or anything just would restart and then start boot looping. So really weird, haven't seen a pc do that yet. but when I google'd it looks like lots of people have the same issue. The main fix for most was that it was a PSU issue or some just gave up and bought a PCI USB bracket.
 
These pc's I'm having issues with are at work and they both ran fine for over a year before starting to get fritzy. I've replaced everything with spares except the cpu/mobo on each.
 
Apparently the Outlook repair did nothing, it's still happening on both machines.
 
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