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re: Hardware or software issue?
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 12:18 am
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Posted by geek9pm (1438 messages posted)


When a USB device fails, Windows XP should give a error message, not a BSOD. You need to check the power supply.

Geek9pm




On Monday, April 3, 2006 at 3:28 pm, Paul Hewitt wrote:
>I keep getting machine_check_exception BSOD's when I plug USB devices into my mobo.
> Sometimes it happens immediately, sometimes it is a few minutes to an hour later
>that it happens. I am running XP Pro and the mobo is less than a year old. It is
>an Asus K8V-SE deluxe board that I thought was pretty good. This problem only started
>about a month ago and it happens with my digital camera, MP3 player, and external
>hard drive. The only thing that seems not to trigger the problem is my printer.
> So how would I determine whether this is hardware or software related? Should I
>just buy a new mobo and hope that fixes the problem?


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Hardware or software issue? (Paul Hewitt: Monday, April 3, 2006 at 3:28 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Hardware or software issue? (Paul Hewitt: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 3:28 pm)
*re: Hardware or software issue? (Mark: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 8:26 pm)
*re: Hardware or software issue? (AnchorMan: Mon, Apr 3, 2006, 9:28 pm)
*re: Hardware or software issue? (geek9pm: Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:18 am)
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