Guest not_you@my.dotcom Posted May 3, 2008 Posted May 3, 2008 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..... -- Posted via http://computerhelpforums.net Forum to USENET Gateway
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