Hello,
Been asked to look at an Acer Aspire T180 which is a Foxconn-based, NForce 405 MOBO running XP Pro. Whenever a USB Memory stick is inserted and the OS is running, it blue screens and dies (i.e. PSU switches off). Same thing happens if inserted prior to boot up.
At first I thought a short circuit, but if I go into the BIOS and turn off USB2 it all works fine. Have tried several memory sticks none of which work. The person recently bought a Trust wireless mouse/kb so rolled back and used PS2 kb/mouse but to no avail (they hadn't used memory sticks in that PC before so I don't know if it's a recent prob).D/led latest NForce drivers from NVidia website but still no joy.
Short of re-installing Windows, has anyone experienced this before? Reminds me of an old Cyrix chip I had which would only run Windows if I disabled Cache! Boy, was it slow.
Would be grateful for any advice. Ta.