Nikon Coolpix 3200 crashes HP 7920 computer

[Carl]

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Hi all-

I have an HP 7920 computer... Yea, it's older and sluggish, but I've
upgraded to Windows XP, so it has generally worked just fine... Until
I bought my new Nikkon Coolpix 3200 digital camera. Whenever I plug
the camera into my computer, it literally crashes the machine. The
"New hardware found" message comes up in the lower corner, but then a
few seconds later it crashes and restarts.

Nikkon told me that it was most likely an HP issue, and that I could
try to reload my USB Host Controller. I've uninstalled that and
reinstalled that, and still nothing. I called HP, and I'm outside of
my warranty, so they won't help me unless I give them an arm and a
leg.

Anyone have any ideas? Please post, or email me at
carlsunder@hotmail.com.

Thank you for your help!

Carl Sundermann

 

[Guest]

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I would consider bypassing the built-in USB ports by adding a truly PCI 2.0
compliant USB card. I have my doubts that the 7920 USB ports are anything more
than USB 1.1, not good enough for today's modern USB appliances.

.... Ben Myers

On 8 Apr 2004 23:26:40 -0700, snarlguy@hotmail.com (Carl) wrote:

>Hi all-
>
>I have an HP 7920 computer... Yea, it's older and sluggish, but I've
>upgraded to Windows XP, so it has generally worked just fine... Until
>I bought my new Nikkon Coolpix 3200 digital camera. Whenever I plug
>the camera into my computer, it literally crashes the machine. The
>"New hardware found" message comes up in the lower corner, but then a
>few seconds later it crashes and restarts.
>
>Nikkon told me that it was most likely an HP issue, and that I could
>try to reload my USB Host Controller. I've uninstalled that and
>reinstalled that, and still nothing. I called HP, and I'm outside of
>my warranty, so they won't help me unless I give them an arm and a
>leg.
>
>Anyone have any ideas? Please post, or email me at
>carlsunder@hotmail.com.
>
>Thank you for your help!
>
>Carl Sundermann