A frustrating 3 hours of debugging

[nyankoframe]

I plugged in my scanner because I need to scan my transcripts and my passport for my visa application, and that started the whole nightmare...

The install of the scanner unexpectedly failed with a "Not enough storage is available to complete this operation" error, and that puzzled me, so I removed the scanner and rebooted. Big mistake.

Every time I logged in after that, regardless of which user account it was running under, it would immediately bluescreen after a few minutes. There was a lot of fun that ensued trying to debug that (various combinations of Safe Mode and enabling/disabling services and startup programs), and in the end, the solution I adopted was to just uninstall the scanner. I could've done a system restore, but I wasn't sure and I wanted to find out why this was happening. There was another issue but I'll need to plug in a network cable to see if that one still exists...

And I'm definitely buying a new scanner after all of this. I'm tired of having to always run-as administrator any program that I want to use to scan because the scanner drivers are brain-dead...

Comments

[itsacz.livejournal.com]

o.0;

Wait, was this under Vista? If so that is to be expected. Wait for the release! :P

Psst, I think you'd be a good tester. ^^;

[nakaemi.livejournal.com]

Mum recently bought a printer and my brother, who is a technician, coder, Systems of Information, student, and worker in a newspaper with the computer systems couldn't install the stupid thing. Mum went and changed the printer and then the same thing happened. All of us told her to buy a Hewlett and stop folling around with another brand. In the end mum went to the store again and changed the printer for a Hewlett. Now it's perfectly installed. BTW, I don't have a separate scanner as mine came as part of the printer. :)