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re: DRIVER ISSUE or mainboard?
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 at 12:19 am
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Posted by Adam Bradley (7830 messages posted)


When you switched printers did you also switch cables?
If the printer has a parallel port try using it instead the USB cable (I assume from the A.) that it is connected by USB
Good luck, Adam Bradley


On Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 8:52 pm, Evildude wrote:
>Ok here are two scenarios, two machines, 1:) mine a P3 733 with Asus board Win
>xp pro and Hp officejet V40-- works fine, prints well, 2:) AMD Duron 1300 mhz and
>ECS mainboard, brand new out of the box fresh install, new case, new HD also with
>HP V40 printer, fax, scanner, printing sparratic intermittantly, will print some
>pages, but will spit out the spool back at the computer. and the Document fails to
>print. after switching the same printer with mine, it was still doing the same thing,
>no problems with the printer.
>could it be
>A.) USB COMPATIBILTY WITH MB?
>B.) Corrupt HCL in XP?
>C:) Office xp Problem?
>D:) Evil alien living in case?
>E:) Typical breakdown of hardware after the 30 day RMA time is up?
>I need some smart answers here people.
>event viewer gives software error ..Failed to fire...


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DRIVER ISSUE or mainboard? (Sheldon Waquan: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 8:52 pm)

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-DRIVER ISSUE or mainboard? (Sheldon Waquan: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 8:52 pm)
*re: DRIVER ISSUE or mainboard? (Adam Bradley: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 12:19 am)
*re: DRIVER ISSUE or mainboard? (czyxzy: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 10:24 pm)
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