Re: [micro-manager-general] crashing

[Pariksheet N. <par...@gm...>]

Hi Dan,

It's good to know that this is a recent problem and it worked well before.


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, D.L.C. Green <dl...@ca...> wrote:
> Belkin fire wire 6-port hubs
> Belkin fire wire notebook adapter for the E5510 and
> Startech 2 port express card 1394b fire wire card for the Lenovo and
> Dell.

What I have seen happen is Windows 7 updates can insidiously update
drivers, so check your update history and verify that the Belkin
hasn't been updated.  If it has, uninstall the newer driver version in
the Device Manager and click the checkbox to delete driver software.
Then "scan for hardware changes" and it should pick up the previous
driver (sometimes it the hardware won't reappear in the Device Manager
till you restart Windows).

If the Belkin driver update was indeed the problem, to prevent any
driver changes you can also disable Microsoft server driver
installation.  When Windows says it's searching for drivers, it
fetches them from the Microsoft server. This is separate from Windows
updates and you should do this step even if you have Windows updates
disabled.  Turn off this driver updating behavior via the Start menu >
(Type in the "Search programs and files" box) change dev > Change
device installation settings > No, Let me choose what to do > Never
install driver from Windows Update.

If you don't want to stop all driver updates, you can also prevent a
specific driver update- when you check for new updates and it shows
the undesirable update, you can right-click on it and choose "Hide";
this should prevent that update from being installed in future.  But
if Microsoft adds a newer Belkin driver version, then this you will
have to again black list it.  IF you are not responsible for Windows
updates or don't have control, you might want to use the previous
option of disabling all driver updates.


> Dan

Pariksheet