Skogsgurra
Electrical
- Mar 31, 2003
- 11,815
I know. I should turn to iomega support with this question. And I tried. But after waiting 20 minutes on their 24/24 7/7 hotline, I turn to my fast and well-informed friends on Eng-Tips.
This is what happened: I am a very satisfied owner of a WaveSurfer 454 scope. It is a 500 MHz beauty with four channels, colour touch screen and with embedded XP and lots of connectors for anything you can imagine. It has everything - except a CD reader.
So, I got myself an iomega CD-RW with USB interface. There was a leaflet saying that I should install SW before I installed HW. But what could I do? There is no internal CD reader so I had to use the iomega to install the SW. I decided to try - after all, it shouldnt do any harm if it didn't work. Right?
WRONG!!! It made my scope completely inoperable. I now have blue screen detah with a message saying something about a missing entry point in services.exe. It seems to be impossible to get around it. Restart, power cycling, disconnect everything - nothing works. I think that it is very close to a criminal offence to ship "bombs" like this. There should at least be a warning telling you that these things could happen.
I lost my interest in computers when Windows was introduced. DOS wa OK. I could do things there - but Windows. No.
Please. How do I get out of this situation? I need my scope urgently and my engineering friends are as bad as I am on this. Anyone?
This is what happened: I am a very satisfied owner of a WaveSurfer 454 scope. It is a 500 MHz beauty with four channels, colour touch screen and with embedded XP and lots of connectors for anything you can imagine. It has everything - except a CD reader.
So, I got myself an iomega CD-RW with USB interface. There was a leaflet saying that I should install SW before I installed HW. But what could I do? There is no internal CD reader so I had to use the iomega to install the SW. I decided to try - after all, it shouldnt do any harm if it didn't work. Right?
WRONG!!! It made my scope completely inoperable. I now have blue screen detah with a message saying something about a missing entry point in services.exe. It seems to be impossible to get around it. Restart, power cycling, disconnect everything - nothing works. I think that it is very close to a criminal offence to ship "bombs" like this. There should at least be a warning telling you that these things could happen.
I lost my interest in computers when Windows was introduced. DOS wa OK. I could do things there - but Windows. No.
Please. How do I get out of this situation? I need my scope urgently and my engineering friends are as bad as I am on this. Anyone?