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I have Win98se.
I have a card reader for my SD camera cards.
I have used this card for months with no problem.
Yesterday I plugged the card into my USB port and the computer froze
up. I got a blue screen with a lengthy message with lots of technical
jargon that I did not understand. It told me to press Y (yes) to
continue running Windows, or N (no) to exit. After several tries, and
regardless if I pressed the Y or the N, left the card reader in the
computer, or unplugged it, my computer just froze up. Nothing worked,
I could not do a CTRL ALT DEL, or anything else, except shut off the
power.
That error message told me to run SETUP.EXE for windows. I ran it
once from Dos and that did not fix the problem. I finally loaded
windows (without that card), deleted all the installed USB drivers
from Control Panel /...../ Device Manager, and clicked SETUP from my
install CD (files on harddrive).
After that, I can use the card reader again.....
Everything seems fine now, and I did not lose any settings running the
reinstall on top of what I had. However, I am curious what could
cause this mess? Yes, I was doing some system modifications before
this happened). I'm just curious why?????
The weird thing is that my USB mouse worked perfectly the whole time,
yet that card reader just caused complete failure.
Note: I do have some 3rd party utility installed, to make the USB port
recognise anything I plug into them. That worked well until this
crash.....
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I have a card reader for my SD camera cards.
I have used this card for months with no problem.
Yesterday I plugged the card into my USB port and the computer froze
up. I got a blue screen with a lengthy message with lots of technical
jargon that I did not understand. It told me to press Y (yes) to
continue running Windows, or N (no) to exit. After several tries, and
regardless if I pressed the Y or the N, left the card reader in the
computer, or unplugged it, my computer just froze up. Nothing worked,
I could not do a CTRL ALT DEL, or anything else, except shut off the
power.
That error message told me to run SETUP.EXE for windows. I ran it
once from Dos and that did not fix the problem. I finally loaded
windows (without that card), deleted all the installed USB drivers
from Control Panel /...../ Device Manager, and clicked SETUP from my
install CD (files on harddrive).
After that, I can use the card reader again.....
Everything seems fine now, and I did not lose any settings running the
reinstall on top of what I had. However, I am curious what could
cause this mess? Yes, I was doing some system modifications before
this happened). I'm just curious why?????
The weird thing is that my USB mouse worked perfectly the whole time,
yet that card reader just caused complete failure.
Note: I do have some 3rd party utility installed, to make the USB port
recognise anything I plug into them. That worked well until this
crash.....
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