Add Hardware, Not Responding..... - Fri 12 Jul 2002 03:17:AM
Had an interesting situation with WinME the other day.<br /><br />I had bought a USB scanner and attached it to the computer. WinME detected and said, 'Cannon scanner detected, would you like to load the drivers etc etc...' <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <br /><br />Well of course, I said yes. It located the new software and then froze. CTRL-ALT-DEL, end task and try again. same problem. Reset computer and start again with all features disabled (Nortons, firewall etc...) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> <br /><br />Computer loads with, 'WinME is building its hardware database.' Very good until 15% when it stops responding again!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/default/rolleyes.gif" /> Reset computer (minus scanner) and did some investigations at microsoft for a fix. It suggested that I search for OEM*.INF files in windows\inf and any the have 0KB, delete them. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="images/icons/default/blush.gif" /> <br /><br />Well, I deleted all of them. ALL 16,500 OF THEM!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/default/shocked.gif" /> <br /><br />Scanner software then loaded A.O.K. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />What the hell would have caused 16,500 dummy INF files? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/default/confused.gif" /> <br /><br />Col <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/default/tongue.gif" />