I don't know if this might help, but on one occasion, my printer port had
been disabled in the bios.
Took me ages to work it out, but it was as simple as that.
When I enabled it, it was fine. Until then, I had tried a number of
different ways to install the printer with no luck.
Have u checked within the bios of your system?
Worth looking, I'd say.
Michele
----- Original Message -----
From: "dhkiley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] printer failure


Gentlemen: My machine seems to have a problem communicating with the
parallel port for my printer. After several attempts with several different
printers, different drivers, add hdw. wizard, I asked a tech at a local
computer store and he informs me there is a communication failure to the
port. Also, there seems to be no way to identify the motherboard, but the
name of the machine is M 2 Systems (M Squared Sys). This machine originally
had Win 98, now has ME and there seems to be no other conflicts anywhere,
and seems to be quite stable. Can anyone help clear up this problem?

Thank you.

Dean Kiley

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