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Karel Jansens Posts: 175

I'm having a weird problem with the SE PC connectivity suite.

My workstation (AMD Athlon 1GHz, 512 MB RAM) runs Windows 2000 SP2, with nothing special added to it. Ever since I installed the SE connection software (version 3.2.0, according to the installer), I cannot shut down the workstation cleanly anymore. On shutdown, the progam mroute~2.exe (probably the thingie with the squiggly lines in the taskbar) just refuses to shut down and when I click the "end now" button, shutdown just hangs and only the reset or power switch helps. (and why can't I shut that squiggly thing down manually? At least PsiWin was a lot more polite in that respect!)

I've already uninstalled and re-installed the PS Suite but the behaviour remains the same.

Also, the PC seems a lot more sluggish since PC Suite was installed and no, it's not a virus. Not unless Sony Ericsson are in the habit of distributing viruses on their official CDs.

Anyone seen anything similar? It's not really a big issue, as I've already decided to get a card reader, a hunking big card and get rid of that piece of [expletive deleted] software.

Cheers,

Karel Jansens
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Posted: 2005-04-13 20:22:01
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govigov Posts: > 500

try killing it in the processes and try....
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Posted: 2005-04-13 20:24:37
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Karel Jansens Posts: 175

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On 2005-04-13 20:24:37, govigov wrote:
try killing it in the processes and try....

>:)

You may not believe this, but that was actually the first thing I tried. The process appears to be unkillable, even with admin privileges (extremely unkewl behaviour, and a good reminder why I like Linux so much more than Windows).

I'm suspecting now that there is some sort of conflict with my external USB/serial/parallel hub: the port monitor (the squiggly thing, remember?) lists an unknown port on COM3, which I am unable to un-connect (the P910 base station is connected to a USB port that hangs directly off the motherboard, but well... maybe Windows doesn't know that).

Next try: uninstall SE PC Suite, unplug the hub, reinstall PC Suite, hook up phone and only then plug hub back in. We'll see...

Cheers,

Karel Jansens
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Posted: 2005-04-13 20:42:03
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Karel Jansens Posts: 175

Just in case anyone was still interested in this, the above procedure might have done the trick. At least I now have a well-behaving SE PC-suite, including a monitor program that shuts down normally.

I don't know why, but I've learned one should never ask that question in things Windows anyway...
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Posted: 2005-04-15 18:42:22
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