Re: Brother MFC-215C Printer

Works on one computer, not another.
If I were faced with this problem, and had previously accomplished what has
been suggested,
I'd assume that I had multiple areas to look at.
First, what are the hardware differences? This is not usually important, but
can be, and may cause some real difficult problems to deal with.
Such things as USB support chip sets and the drivers required for instance.
Sometimes MBD support drivers are involved.
The real reason in looking at the hardware is to sort of establish some sort
of baseline between the systems.

Next, and more important in my view, is to compare the registry entries and
structure of the two computers in areas that can obviously have an effect on
printing and a printer install.
Special attention is paid to areas that are particuliar to the brand and
model of printer

One thing that I've found in the past is that there may be unexpected
registry changes that trace back to hardware that is not installed, or was
not uninstalled properly.
Multiple duplicate registry entries can cause some really odd symptoms.

Sort of a last thought that worked, usually on older windows versions and
SP's
Check to see if there are differences in rev levels of the various printer
support dlls. be they windows or vendor specific.



"Lem" <lemp40@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Phil J. wrote:
Many thanks to Chuck and lem,

However, I cleaned all of the files I coul;d find related to Brother to
no
avail.

Also, however, I only have a USB keyboard and I have never attempted
anything like removing USB ports and/or controllers. How painful is it
and
can it be terminal?

Would you like to know how fed up I am - very, thats how!

Would appreciate some help.

This is porbably a cardinal sin, but me computer is a Dell Dimension
9150
desktop.

Well - you live and learn!

Thanks again!

The problem with removing all your USB support when you have a USB
keyboard, is that you may get to a situation where Windows is looking
for an input but you have no way to provide the input.

Assuming of course that a Dell 9150 has a PS/2 input jack, you can buy
PS/2 keyboards for less than $10

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200076+5&Ne=500000&product_code=50201012&Pn=Standard_107_Keyboard
or you could try a PS/2 to USB converter for about the same cost (make
sure you get it going the right way) http://sewelldirect.com/ps2tousb.asp

--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer


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