Connecting USB printer resets Windows 2000

[Dave]

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Hi,

I'm having difficulty with USB printing under Windows 2000. Just switching
on the printer (Epson Stylus Photo 870) causes the machine to reset
immediately and on reboot, I'm faced with a blue screen of death as follows:

STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x8041E32D,0x00000000,0x000000­1D)
KODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

etc.

Turning off the printer allows the machine to boot normally.

The problem was introduced when switching from a VIA KT133 motherboard to an
NVIDA Nforce2 and is definately software related because I can boot
successfully from a parallel install of Windows 2000 on the same machine.

Other USB peripherals, including a gamepad and external hard-drive, work
flawlessly.

What I've tried so far:

- All suggestions in the Microsoft Knowledge Base relating to the above stop
condition (so no knee-jerk responses solely consisting of KB links please!)
- Removal of all VIA-related drivers and registry keys left over from my old
board.
- In-place install of Windows 2000. Fixes the problem, but wipes out all my
applications, so not a very useful solution. I've restored the original
from backups now.
- Update of computer type from "ACPI PC" to "ACPI uniprocessor PC", matching
the way the PC was identified in the parallel install. This cured a problem
with interrupts being stacked up on IRQ9, but evidently that wasn't the
cause of the original issue.
- Removal of all EPSON drivers and registry keys.
- Removal of all USB-related drivers and registry keys. The machine will
then reboot okay, as you'd expect, but resets as soon as "USB printing
support" is reinstalled.
- Test of system files using sfc.
- Reinstallation of service pack 4.

Does anyone have any further suggestions which do not involve a
reinstallation of 2K? I'm running out of ideas!

Regards,
Dave

 

[Guest]

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I had a similar problem when plugging a USB 2.0 device into an older motherboard that had 1.1
support. I solved the problem by adding a 2.0 card.


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[Guest]

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So you've got a windows install on different hardware (motherboard)? I'm
suprised you not having more issues than you described. There's a knowledge
base article on restoring a backup to dissimilar hardware, you might want to
look for that. As a quick fix I would try sysprepping the machine. That way
when it boots back up it will run mini-setup and do hardware detection and
enumaration.

HTH

kevw

"Dave" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having difficulty with USB printing under Windows 2000. Just switching
> on the printer (Epson Stylus Photo 870) causes the machine to reset
> immediately and on reboot, I'm faced with a blue screen of death as follows:
>
> STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x8041E32D,0x00000000,0x000000­1D)
> KODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
>
> etc.
>
> Turning off the printer allows the machine to boot normally.
>
> The problem was introduced when switching from a VIA KT133 motherboard to an
> NVIDA Nforce2 and is definately software related because I can boot
> successfully from a parallel install of Windows 2000 on the same machine.
>
> Other USB peripherals, including a gamepad and external hard-drive, work
> flawlessly.
>
> What I've tried so far:
>
> - All suggestions in the Microsoft Knowledge Base relating to the above stop
> condition (so no knee-jerk responses solely consisting of KB links please!)
> - Removal of all VIA-related drivers and registry keys left over from my old
> board.
> - In-place install of Windows 2000. Fixes the problem, but wipes out all my
> applications, so not a very useful solution. I've restored the original
> from backups now.
> - Update of computer type from "ACPI PC" to "ACPI uniprocessor PC", matching
> the way the PC was identified in the parallel install. This cured a problem
> with interrupts being stacked up on IRQ9, but evidently that wasn't the
> cause of the original issue.
> - Removal of all EPSON drivers and registry keys.
> - Removal of all USB-related drivers and registry keys. The machine will
> then reboot okay, as you'd expect, but resets as soon as "USB printing
> support" is reinstalled.
> - Test of system files using sfc.
> - Reinstallation of service pack 4.
>
> Does anyone have any further suggestions which do not involve a
> reinstallation of 2K? I'm running out of ideas!
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>

 

[Dave]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.general (More info?)

"kevw" <kevw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E4918BD1-F7C4-4A9C-A1CC-2C2E9AAC5916@microsoft.com...
> So you've got a windows install on different hardware (motherboard)? I'm
> suprised you not having more issues than you described.

Heh. Yea, there were a few other problems, but nothing too difficult to
sort out.

> There's a knowledge
> base article on restoring a backup to dissimilar hardware, you might want
to
> look for that.

Will have a look, thanks.

> As a quick fix I would try sysprepping the machine. That way
> when it boots back up it will run mini-setup and do hardware detection and
> enumaration.
>

Nice idea, but the result was the same - a reset when installing USB
printing support. :-(

Regards,
Dave