XP crashes when USB flash drive is plugged

[Sridhar_Rao]

I have a transcend USB 2.0 Jetflash flash drive (256 MB), purchased more than 2 years ago. It was working fine on win 98 and XP (minus SP2). I bought a laptop (Dell) with XP SP2 already installed. I plug in the device and I get a "blue screen of death" with some message irq_less_than... something. I have to reboot the sytem. It continues to work fine with my desktop. I formatted it and checked for any errors. I contacted the manufacturer, they washed their hands off saying they don't cover products that are 2 years old. But they did try to assist me. They squarely blamed on the OS. Microsoft did not bother to reply. Any idea what's going on?

 

[ranjan2001]

I too have faced the sameproblem & later found out that indeed it was a XP problem SP1 in my case, I later installed slipstreamed XPSP2& then it worked all fine.

 

[Sridhar_Rao]

What is slipstreamed SP2? I regularly update my laptop and I believe that my system has latest updates, patches of fixes that microsoft has to offer.

 

[sudhix]

Try setting a diff IRQ range in Device manager for the usb controller

 

[Sridhar_Rao]

I am from medical field, can you please advice me on how to do that?

 

[ranjan2001]

slipstreamedSP u dont have to apply SP2 patch seperately, its integrated, just google to find out more.

In my case this problem started when I updated to SP2 but networking went down & started getting this same usb error so I rolled back to SP1 but the usb problem remained then.

 

[sudhix]

Go to Device Manager, select ur USB controller. Select the Resources tab and chk the IRQ value. Try to change it if possible. Els try to roll back SP2 to SP1...