[geeks] USB and Windows 7 crashes...

[Nick B]

HP's drivers are.. uh.. famous, so I'd consider that a leading contender.
Have you been plugging the printer into the same port every time?
Nick

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Shannon <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> I have discovered a strange problem and thought to run it by you guys.
>
> For a long time, my mother's computer would lock up in a way that so far
> has
> defied debugging. The machine hangs, and the screen becomes corrupted. The
> screen almost looks like an old school TV which has lost signal.
>
> Because Windows was totally hung and you couldn't see enough of the screen
> to
> look at it for information, it remained a mystery.
>
> I can't babysit my mother's machine so I was almost at the point of telling
> her to buy another or let me build one.
>
> I decided to go and try one more time to debug the machine and she told me
> that it had been getting steadily worse. While there I also noticed that it
> hung on the BIOS screen for a long time. Just out of habit, I unplugged
> every
> USB device that wasn't needed, and when I unplugged the printer (HP 2015)
> the
> BIOS screen progressed.
>
> Hmmmm... reboot with printer disconnected, machine boots up quick. Reboot
> with
> printer connected, machine hangs a bit, and then boots slowly.
>
> So, I told her to leave the printer disconnected for a week or so. During
> that
> time Windows has not crashed once.
>
> Any ideas why the printer could trigger that behavior?
>
>
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