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by tstobbe

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I have an 1.4 athlon processor with 1 gig memory, and 3 40 gig drives. Msi k7t motherboard, running win98. The problem is when I plug the card reader into the onboard usb port I get the blue screen. If I boot up with it plugged in it says it found new hardware and the screen turns black with a green line across the top, and locks up, can't even do ctrl-atl-del. All the proper drivers have been installed for the motherboard. I put a 4 port usb card in and it does the same thing. I can boot into safe mode and install the drivers but it will do the samething when it reboots. The lastest drivers have been downloaded for it, and it won't work if I run that .exe and then plug it in either. Any ideas?

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by hinrgman

have you tried this reader on another machine??

Do the USB ports on this machine work with other USB devices???

by tstobbe

Thanks, The reader does work on different machines, and other usb devices work fine when plugged in, I have a usb cdrw and it works fine. I've tried two different readers that I know work and I get the same thing, doesn't make sense.

by thechas

It is not a San-Disk problem.

Windows 98 has a problem with more than 511MB of RAM.
The extra driver for the San Disk reader is triggering the memory bug for your system.
Adding any other additional hardware could also trigger the bug.

Thereare 2 work-arounds;
Reduce memory to less than 511MB.
Setup windows so that it ignores part of your memory.

There are 2 MS knowledge base articles on this. One for 512MB, 1 for 1GB.
Either way, it is a Windows "bug" that is very configurationdependant.

To test this, just shut down, and remove 1/2 of your RAM.

XP and W2K do not have the memory wall. So upgrading your OS is another option.

Chas

by tstobbe

Thanks,I replaced the two 512 memory sticks with a 256, and it still does the same thing. I would upgrade to win2k but I need to know that my scanner will work. It's an hp 6300. Hp says they have drivers for win 2k but they also said they have drivers for ME, and it won't work with ME.

by pinoy_teknik

1 and 2 are rejected, so how about the san disk parameter, did you read it through the manual. Did you also check the USB setup in the BIOS maybe you mistaken that....

by tstobbe

Thanks for all the suggestions, the actual problem had to do with adaptec cd creator. It renames a Microsoft apix file which makes it uncompatibile with imagemate peripherals.

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