For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
any ideas to fix this problem?

Sounds like a short in the system

how many ports do you have and does thsi happen to all of them?


"Tony-KC8EWU" <ttymes@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

Sounds like a short in the system

how many ports do you have and does thsi happen to all of them?


"Tony-KC8EWU" <ttymes@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google.c om...
> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

did you move any of the power cables (for cd/hd) when you put in the new HD?
if you have one of them laying about it can short out when you plug in a USB
cable, it's happened to me before, tape up the ends of all loose cables, but
the idea of a card shorting out sounds more interesting (although less
likely than just a cable touching the case) but maybe it's the card/port you
plugged the USB card into like wally said



"Wally" <wwelle@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:gfQqd.78$x_1.50@fe11.lga...
> Sounds like a short in the system
>
> how many ports do you have and does thsi happen to all of them?
>
>
> "Tony-KC8EWU" <ttymes@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google.c om...
> > For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> > system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> > once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> > reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> > previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> > went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> > tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> > wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> > any ideas to fix this problem?
>
>

did you move any of the power cables (for cd/hd) when you put in the new HD?
if you have one of them laying about it can short out when you plug in a USB
cable, it's happened to me before, tape up the ends of all loose cables, but
the idea of a card shorting out sounds more interesting (although less
likely than just a cable touching the case) but maybe it's the card/port you
plugged the USB card into like wally said



"Wally" <wwelle@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:gfQqd.78$x_1.50@fe11.lga...
> Sounds like a short in the system
>
> how many ports do you have and does thsi happen to all of them?
>
>
> "Tony-KC8EWU" <ttymes@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google.c om...
> > For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> > system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> > once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> > reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> > previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> > went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> > tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> > wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> > any ideas to fix this problem?
>
>

ttymes@sbcglobal.net (Tony-KC8EWU) wrote in message news:<b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google. com>...
> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

it could be the stupid xp setting that should be turned off but is on by default.

start..ctrl panel..system..advanced...startup and recovery settings..
See, it says something along the lines of retart when there's a problem

ttymes@sbcglobal.net (Tony-KC8EWU) wrote in message news:<b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google. com>...
> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

it could be the stupid xp setting that should be turned off but is on by default.

start..ctrl panel..system..advanced...startup and recovery settings..
See, it says something along the lines of retart when there's a problem

ttymes@sbcglobal.net (Tony-KC8EWU) wrote in message news:<b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google. com>...
> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

It will lock if you put a new HDD in there and install a new card.
Because the OS was installed on another computer, so it doesn't
recognise any of the new HW, and it thinks it's still on the old
computer, it gets confused and hangs. You have to reinstall the OS on
that mobo.
Maybe there's some way of reinstalling just the mobo linked parts of
the OS.

ttymes@sbcglobal.net (Tony-KC8EWU) wrote in message news:<b36de948.0411231452.5cbd3c7e@posting.google. com>...
> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself. I can occasionaly use my scanner, even then
> once its dont i have to unplug it right away or computer will self
> reboot. its even rebooted in the middle of loading windows up. I had
> previosly installed a USB 2 card and that worked great till old hd
> went bad. once i put a new hd in and got everything reinstalled and
> tried to install card, computer will lock up on the found hardware
> wizzard or wont even respond after a manual reboot.
> any ideas to fix this problem?

It will lock if you put a new HDD in there and install a new card.
Because the OS was installed on another computer, so it doesn't
recognise any of the new HW, and it thinks it's still on the old
computer, it gets confused and hangs. You have to reinstall the OS on
that mobo.
Maybe there's some way of reinstalling just the mobo linked parts of
the OS.

Tony,

Tony-KC8EWU wrote:

> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself.

USB doesn't like to share an IRQ setting which may cause a constant reboot.

You didn't say which operating system although I think it is M$ NT+ so I
can't give you specifics on how to resolve the problem. But here are
some MS knowledge-base articles that might help.

XP: Q314068
2k: 252420.

Goto Microsoft.com, "knowledge base" under support towards the bottom of
the page, type in the article number or issue in search and go. Good luck.

Tony,

Tony-KC8EWU wrote:

> For some odd reason when ever I plug anything into my usb ports ,
> system reboots itself.

USB doesn't like to share an IRQ setting which may cause a constant reboot.

You didn't say which operating system although I think it is M$ NT+ so I
can't give you specifics on how to resolve the problem. But here are
some MS knowledge-base articles that might help.

XP: Q314068
2k: 252420.

Goto Microsoft.com, "knowledge base" under support towards the bottom of
the page, type in the article number or issue in search and go. Good luck.