Sony USB Voice Recorder software crashes system

[Jim Graf]

Bought a Sony ICD-P210 for my wife and it seems like a nice unit. My
laptop recognizes the device when I plug it in and I can see it listed
in the "unplugger". But when I run Sony's software "Digital Voice
Editor" that came with the device, the system reboots! Darned efficient
at it too.

The laptop has one port of USB1 and two ports of USB2 and I've tried
both with the same results. The camera, the phone, the external DVD
writer and the 2 external WD drives all function properly - not at the
same time, naturally.

I'm at a loss and it's been a long, long time that I've seen an
application have such a touch of death.

Any ideas?

The wife wants to record our three year old when she sings, babbles and
screams and we wanted to be able to download the audio for posterity.
Maybe a graduation gift down the road. Maybe somebody else has an idea
for a similar device I can try?

thanks,
jim

 

[jimvernon2003]

Maybe you've already tried this, but you could check and see if there
is an update posted on Sony's website for that software.

 

[jimvernon2003]

Maybe you've already tried this, but you could check and see if there
is an update posted on Sony's website for that software.

In fact, here's an update for the Digital Voice Editor right here.

http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=ICDP28&upd_id=1529&os_id=99

 

[jgraf]

Thanks, the version that came on the CD was higher then the one on the
web site. I tried to load the older version - somtimes that does the
trick - but the update wouldn't let me.

Just an ill behaved product for the mix of stuff on my laptop. I'm sure
it works just fine everywhere else. But I do have a sony external usb2
DVD writer that works wonderfully, so it isn't Sony hardware. Or at
least I like to believe that.