Instant power-off



I have an issue that is so weird that I've gave up googling for it,
before I even started. My excuse for using this newsgroup is that I have
an ASUS Motherbord, M2NPV-VN, and I have gotten some good answers here in
the past. But I don't really hold the motherboard as the culprit.

The issue is that occasionally when I am to plug in a USB device using the
front connection of my computer case and fiddle around to find my way,
the computer powers off instantly. This has happened three times now over
a period of couple of months. Last night when it happened, I had to pull
out the power cable for some seconds to be able to turn on the computer
again.

The case is Antec Sonata II, but the power supply is from Corsair, as I
had to replace two bad power supples from Antec. The operating system is
Vista Ultimate x64 SP2, although I find difficult to believe that that
matters.

--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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