Equium M40x-189 freezes within 30 seconds of Windows starting

My M40x-189 froze all of a sudeen while using it.
Everytime I restarted it froze again within 30 seconds of windows xp starting.
I have wiped the hard drive and reinstalled xp but it is still freezing.
I have started in safe mode and disabled all of the devices in device manager, then enabling them one by one.
It appears to re-boot ok and work fine as long as the usb host controllers are disabled.
Any advice? Is it software or hardware?
I have tried updating drivers using Drivercure but it doesn't seem to help.
Any advice greatly appreciated

Hi
I think its related to the hardware issue but we can only speculate about the faulty part
Maybe its a RAM issue I mean one or both modules could be affected.
My old notebook has frozen because one memory slot got too warm I dont know why but only one slot was affected. I changed the modules and used only one module.
This helped to solve my issue
I think you should test the RAM too.

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Furthermore on the website you will find the installation instructions document. Use this list as a recommended driver and software installation order.
I think this is such a list that you mean so check this!!!
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