Addition of External Device Causes Hardboot.
Background:
Desktop - Dell
OS - XP Pro
HD Capacity - 80g (61g avail)
RAM - 1g
External Devices - Lexmark printer
Issue:
When I attempt to add an external device to my Desktops USB ports, the PC indicates it recognizes the device being added (Camera, Portable HD) and then hard boots itself. The PC will come back up and indicate it had recovered from a "serious problem" and works without issue. Plug in external device... hard boot. I have tried different USB ports and get the same results. I also tried adding the device while the PC was off to see if adding it this way would result in better behaviors... it did not.
I can eventually get the device to work, but after how many hardboots which isn't the best thing for my PC.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Thanks.