Satellite M40x-189 freezes within 30 seconds of starting Windows

My M40x-189 all one Franco froze during use.

Whenever I rebooted, it froze again within 30 seconds to boot windows xp.
I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled xp but it still freezes.
I started in safe mode and disabled all devices in Device Manager, then allowing one by one.
It seems to re-boot ok and work properly as long as usb host controllers are disabled.

Any advice? Is this software or hardware?

I tried to update the drivers using Drivercure but it doesn't seem to help.

Any advice greatly appreciated

It is not easy to say if it happens because of hardware or software but with own WXP preinstalled, everything should be OK again.
Did you use original Toshiba recovery CD for the installation of Windows XP Home edition?

By the way: this model of laptop is quite old. You have cleaned up your laptop in the past?

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