System reboots after I plug in USB wireless adapter

[athlon64X2]

Hi

I had an old PIII Dell system from which I am moving to another old Athlon XP system. My USB wireless adapter (some Netgear) was working fine with my old Pentium. But now I am trying to install it onto the Athlon based system, I get a system reboot everytime I plug it in.

Infact, I have just installed the driver and then plugged in the device. Then while XP searches for the driver and finds the correct one. It prompts me that the driver is not Windows certified (or some such message). I continue anyway. And then I get the system reboot.

I have gone through this process a multiple times but with same result. Any ideas why I may get system reboot?

Thanks.

 

[programmer]

Usually an abrupt reset is a driver-level problem. Have you tied looking for the latest drivers that are XP certified?

 

[ribbon13]

definately asynch to synch-mode fatality

is there an updated bios you've neglected to flash? using non-MS USB drivers?

 

[athlon64X2]

I have not flashed the bios in ages on this one. It is an old Athlon XP (Socket 754) based ASU motherboard.

Just to update:
1) It is not the wireless adapter driver problem. The MB has 2 US ports and one has the wireless plugged in while the other has my webcam. Both working fine.
2) Now if in one of the motherboard USB ports I try to plug in a USB hub (which will expand my capacity to additional 4 USB ports), then the system reboots.

Seems like some IRQ conflict happening here? Is there a way to resolve this?

Thanks.

 

[Tsaico]

I would also uncheck the "reboot automatically after crash" in the auto recovery options in Windows. You could actually be seeing a blue screen, but the system restarts it instead of displaying. Also, check out the system event log to see if you can find error in there.