usb scanner hogging resources

Hecate

a friend of mine had this problem when he plugged a Mustec usb scanner into a p350.

the minute he plugged it in, windows slowed down to a crawl, the resource meter showed nearly 100% cpu usage. We attached the scanner to a p450 from a diff manufacturer, and the same thing happend. Its obviously particular to this scanner, but I'd just like to know whats going on, and has anybody encountered similar problems?

WhiteWashMan

try shutting down in task manager and leave just scanner, explorer and systray working and see what your systrces are like then

if you have a lot of apps they can also hog resources.
anyway, usb should be banned for being crap and unreliable

Hecate

but there was nothing else running, thats my point , the cpu just went mental when the scanner was plugged in, no new apps launched.

WhiteWashMan

disconnect the scanner
reboot pc
uninstall ALL scanner software
reboot
reinstall scanner software
shut down
plug in scanner
rebbot
see what happens then

also try turing off everything useless in msconfig except systray and explorer if they are tere
anything else you need you can run manually
empty startup menu just to be on safe side as well

see what the sys resources are like without the scanner plugged in
plugg in he scanner and then see what the are like
also do a scan disk and a defrag..sometimes helps

if all that fails, then i do seriously suggest getting a new scanner coz they are a pain in the bum

Hobbes

Welcome to M$ world of embrace and destroy.

USB on windows seriously sucks, and I have to say it's Windows fault. Basically M$ didn't want anything that could be used to switch OS so they made USB the most painful thing to use in windows.

I plug a USB device into a mac and it just works straight off.

I plug the same device into windows and it slows to a crawl then numerous windows come up "finding device", then it finally works.

Sorry I'm not being any help. Just wanted to share my pain.

WhiteWashMan

lol

ffs simon, youre no help at all!

Hobbes

So I can get a job in support so?

WhiteWashMan

no, but you can become a localisation 'expert' if you want

Hobbes

International Software Developer thank you very much.

or I think "global product developer" or something like that is the latest in the naming craze.

Btw, Localisation is spelt with a Z (least that's what all Americans think).

Hecate

dialogue with me so we can cross collatorize our resources with a few to fixing this fu(king scanner

WhiteWashMan

have you done what i suggested?
if not then return the scanner and get a new one...try HP as they seem to be he most friendly and reliable.
but try to get a parralel connection scanner instead of usb, coz they suck donkeys cox