[pzh1]

Hello
I have a Vista XPS 410. Since I bought it, every thumb drive I own (6 of them) bring on the blue screen of death. I plug them in (even brand new out of the packaging) , and it crashes every time. Similar thing happens with all three of my ipods. If my ipod is plugged in, and then I run itunes, it crashes. But if itunes is running first,then I plug in my ipod, it is fine. Unless I hit the "sync" button after and it crashes again. As for the thumb drives, they work fine in my laptops and work pc's. I plug in other usb devices like external hard drives, wacom tablets, etc and no problem. Even if I plug in my external usb hub, and put in the thumb drive, it crashes. U3 thumb drives dont crash right away. It is after I put in my password and it is accessing the info that it goes down. Yet if I boot up my pc with the thumb drive already in: no problem.
I have been on with Dell numerous times and no help. I have updated all the drivers, the bios, and installed sp1. SP1 did not stop the crashes, it just changed the error message. It went from the "irql-less-not equal" or something like that to a completely different one Does anyone have any other ideas I can try out?
p.s. This has happened since I first got it, before installing most of the usb devices I own, so it doesnt look to be a conflict.
Thanks

[DaveBurnett]

It sounds as though the motherboard/usb drivers have not been installed (properly).

[Compiler]

... and if Dell support couldn't figure this out - they should have sent you a replacement computer.

Try the mobo drivers thou... but if it still doesn't work, demand that Dell replace the computer... and that it has this error since you got it.