That’s the number of times I have re-installed windows xp on my system since I returned back from India on Thursday morning. 4 crazy times, all because it reboots itself everytime I insert a USB device (usually either my bluetooth dongle or thumb drive).

It can totally drive you nuts, whenever you need to offload something or otherwise, it won’t even let you do it.

I somehow managed to narrow it down to some inconsistant USB2.0 enhanced driver probably found in windows xp service pack 2. Yup, after some trial and error, that appears to be the case. I just happened to decide to un-install the driver, and when I reboot the PC, it attempts to re-install it back again. However, even before it can complete the process, it reboots itself again.

Disabling the USB support in BIOS managed to solve the problem.

Let’s see how it goes without me installing the bluetooth driver. That could be one part of the problem.