Originally Posted by
mbreuer
Did you put the USB stuff back into the same ports, or different ones?
Try one at a time and see which peripheral is causing the issue. 400W should be enough, but you could have a bad supply.
So... here are your test/result possibilities:
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2. Same combination of peripherals cause problem, regardless of ports used: probably power supply.
One other question - do any of the USB peripheral's have a drive, or anything that might look like one to the bios? ......
I tried them on same ports and different ports. All failed.
Your prognoses of possible power supply problem noted.
I had no USB drive (or look-alike) attached at the time.
As I said in an earlier post, I plan to just save the HD and re-cycle the rest. Thanks you for your suggestions.