printer woes
25 November 2002, 03:04 PM
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got a PC and got a new printer. Printer supposed to work on Windows 95, 98, 2000 machines.
Printer software installed on a 98 machine but wont recognise lpt1??
Tried it on another machine with Windows 2000 and it workd fine. Is there some setting somewhere that could be causing the printer not to work on the Win 98 machine.
Alternatively how much does it cost for an upgrade to Windows 2000. Anyone know where I could down load an evaluation copy
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fris
Printer software installed on a 98 machine but wont recognise lpt1??
Tried it on another machine with Windows 2000 and it workd fine. Is there some setting somewhere that could be causing the printer not to work on the Win 98 machine.
Alternatively how much does it cost for an upgrade to Windows 2000. Anyone know where I could down load an evaluation copy
regards
fris
25 November 2002, 03:14 PM
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First off, check your non-working PC's bios and be sure that the parallel port is enabled. Make a note of the IRQ and port that's assigned to it.
Check in W98 hardware manager (dunno, but guess it's system control panel then hardware, then possibly device manager) to see if anything's conflicting.
You should be able to see your parallel port in the device manager. If you can't, there's something wrong - try adding new hardware and telling it you're adding a parallel port at the IRQ and port that you made a note of in the bios. It should tell you if anything's conflicting...
As an aside, this sort of thing can happen when you add extra hardware into your machine and Windows decides that you no longer need the resources assigned to the parallel port as you're not using 'em, so reassigns them to something else. Now you've got to try to outsmart windows which isn't that difficult...
Good luck, this can be a sod.
Nick.
Check in W98 hardware manager (dunno, but guess it's system control panel then hardware, then possibly device manager) to see if anything's conflicting.
You should be able to see your parallel port in the device manager. If you can't, there's something wrong - try adding new hardware and telling it you're adding a parallel port at the IRQ and port that you made a note of in the bios. It should tell you if anything's conflicting...
As an aside, this sort of thing can happen when you add extra hardware into your machine and Windows decides that you no longer need the resources assigned to the parallel port as you're not using 'em, so reassigns them to something else. Now you've got to try to outsmart windows which isn't that difficult...
Good luck, this can be a sod.
Nick.
25 November 2002, 03:58 PM
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No worries, hope it works. I had this happen on a machine that had never had a printer installed on it and had had lots of add-in cards plugged in and out. Resource management isn't Win95 or 98's strong point/
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