A friend installed a HP600C on her win95 pentium.  Win95 would never
'see it' during installation or booting.  It kept saying that it could
not communicate with the printer.  Tried new LPT1 printer cable,
---new mobo ribbon cable--nothing.  The printer works on other
machines.  Finally, I changed the CMOS from 'auto' configure parallel
port to manual, and I entered the IRQ, etc. and selected BI-DIR.

Sure enough, it rebooted and 'found' the printer--took the
installation, and printed a perfect test page.  It worked beatifully
every time.  Then rebooted, and no more printer.  Again, it would not
install, and win95 could not 'see' the printer--no communication.

I deleted the printer from device manager, reset the manul numbers in
CMOS, and tried again. It worked.  So, have to 'install' the printer
every time I start the machine.  It will not 'stay' configured.

Any ideas?

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