MBP Freezing After Booting In 64 Bit Kernel

[t0rr3s]

I have a 15" i5 2.53 GHz MBP with OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD. Today I just tried booting into 64 bit, apropos of nothing really, before discovering that my MBP will freeze a few seconds after coming to desktop. I just couldn't provide any input from the keyboard or trackpad. I had previously done this on my 13" 2010 MBP (with same RAM and SSD) with no problems so I was just wondering if anyone could take a guess as to the cause of the freeze.

 

[blevins321]

I had this problem. Eventually I figured out that it had nothing to do with my new SSD, but rather HP's scanner software not being compatible with 64-bit Snow Leopard.

 

[t0rr3s]

Aye, think you might have hit the nail right on the head with this one. My HP printer software just had an update recently too. Bit of a bugger this but thanks all the same, I just needed an idea of the possible culprit.

 

[blevins321]

I made the mistake of installing the full software package from HP. Apparently the drivers that came with it were the culprit. I tricked OSX into installing a multifunction driver-only package via Software Update though, and that seemed to fix the issue. Although now OSX thinks my scanner is an HP 8500

Only reason I did the full package was because HP's software supports putting multiple photos on the glass and cutting them automatically before saving. I got around this by just doing single photos and using Preview to scan things (which was a rare necessity).

 

[t0rr3s]

It works now in 64bit after I uninstalled the HP software (which I never used anyway) so yeah, big thanks! Just curious, how did you trick OSX into downloading the multifunction package anyway?