Re: [micro-manager-general] Blue screen crash when using live mode of MM 1.4

[Xingbo S. <xin...@ya...>]

Hi Nico

Many thanks for narrowing down the source of the problem! I will contact
the company to see if they can help.

Yours sincerely
Xingbo

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:11 PM Nico Stuurman <nic...@uc...> wrote:

> Hi Xingbo,
>
> > Hi everyone. My lab uses MM 1.4 to control a Cascade 512B camera with
> > the driver PVCAM 2.9.11. Everything works fine (snap image, record
> > position,...), but when 'live' button is clicked, a blue screen crash
> > of Windows almost always happens. The problem reported by Windows is:
> > DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I also try to script live mode in
> > Matlab and the same blue screen crash happens when
> > startContinuousSequenceAcquisition(0) is executed. No blue screen
> > crash is encountered in the demo configuration of MM. Before MM1.4, my
> > lab uses Slidebook and no blue screen encountered during live imaging.
> > Any idea on what is causing the problem? Many thanks in advance!
>
> Blue screens under Micro-Manager almost invariably are caused by
> problems in the driver (blue screens are caused by kernel level code,
> and only the drivers act there).
>
> The Cascade 512B is a very old camera, and it is possible that only
> certain versions of PVCAM work well with it.  YOu may want to contact
> Photometrics/Teledyne to see if they can help (since the camera is
> probably >15 years old, you may want to forgive them if they will be
> unable to help).
>
> Hope you will get it working!
>
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
>
>
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