Any Plug and Play device shuts down PC

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My computer has been working quite well....
3.2Ghz 1Gb Ram with XP Pro.
Recently it has begun having issues with any plug and play device.
Namely, the PC performs an instant hard reboot.
The moment I touch a USB drive to the plug (not even plugging it in), or the
moment I insert a flash card in the built in reader, or the moment I touch my
headphone plug to the jack....anything at all causes the computer to
instantly shutoff and reboot.
However, if I plug something in while the computer is turned off, it works
fine and as it should, I can even unplug it and it still works fine....the
moment I try to plug it back in I encounter the original problem.
I recently added a RAID card (setup as RAID 1 and as the boot drive), which
was working well, but after a few of these spastic reboots the RAID card
doesn't recognize the two attached drives and I have had to go back to just
using one.

Any ideas on what is going on or how to fix it?
.



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