Drivers!!!

[me]

About 4 months ago I started getting system shut down errors. The ones
where you can send a report to MS. MS advice was that recently
installed hardware had a driver that was trying to access forbidden
areas of memory.

Suspects were the Skype upgrade which I had installed, a replacement
wireless mouse, and a Canon LiDE 25 scanner. I uninstalled the first
two but never suspected canon. It got worse. A few days ago I
formatted and did a fresh install of XP.

With little in the way of software installed, everything was so
smooth. Internet and network both going great.

Then I installed the scanner. Almost instantly the same error
messages came thick and fast. My Computer and Windows Explorer was
totally unusable. I have eradicated all vestige of the canon driver
and things look good again, but how can I be sure?

Just before I installed the scanner two nights ago I used Acronis True
Image v8 to make an image. In theory I should be able to restore to
the point immediately before the canon driver was introduced, but that
image and all previous ones are now reported as corrupted. Their boot
disks come up with an error message: hub.c: connect-debounce failed,
God alone knows what that means.

I've reported it to Canon and they're keeping their hears down.

Any ideas, anybody?

Colin

 

[DL]

If you created an Acronis Image,which was found to be corrupted, this can be
caused by failing memory.
I use the Canon scanner with no probs, presumably you checked Canon for
updated drivers.
I assume you only use manu drivers, and NOT winupdate drivers.
Suggest you download, create the floppy and test memory with memtest86+ ,
over several hours.
Also your hd manu, floppy testing utility

 

[me]

I've been thinking about memory. That's an easy one to check.

I did download a driver from canon. It was called Deldrv.exe 108Kb.
I asked Canon if it was the right one and got no reply.

Thanks I'll change my memory, it's easy enough.

Colin