Re: XP Pro, SP3, LPT1, HP LaserJet, Printer problem

On Dec 16 2008, 2:18 pm, TaurArian <taurar...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an old HP LaserJet 4L connected via LPT1 and running WinXP SP3 Pro and
IE7 etc and have no problems.

My first thought would be the cable attached to the printer and/or power to
the printer.

Unfortunately the old HP LaserJet's printer cable is part of the printer.

K

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:



What does HP Support have to say about this?

You are joking, right? Most of HP's support folks (if they respond)
have never heard of the LaserJet 4, let alone know anything about
troubleshooting a problem. Like asking a new IBMer about a 1401 or a
1600, or a RAMAC 305. That's why I came to this NG, hoping some old
codgers like me could advise me.

Anyway, I have gotten this printer to work via an involved process of
uninstalling and reinstalling the printer's drivers and the LPT1 port,
and purging the PRINTER Spool Queue. I can then print from a CMD
prompt and all applications, for awhile. However, after it has been
sitting idle for awhile, nothing gets to it. When I try to print a
Test Page, I see a '1' briefly in that printer's Document Print Queue,
but then that turns to '0' Documents, but there are now two file in
the PRINTER Spool Queue, 'FP00006.SPL' and FP00006.SHD. The Event
Viewer log lists several entries that indicate this printer was
deleted and then and entry with an Event ID of 6161, Win32 Error Code
of 2(0x2).

I then go back through the whole uninstall, reboot, reinstall, purge
routine and it works again, for awhile, and then again, nothing.

This printer works fine on my Win98 machine and my wife's XP Pro
machine, so I know the printer and the separate cable are OK, that
it's something wrong in my machine. Ran SFC, and all is OK there.

Tried searching the MSFT Knowledge base, but can not find anything
specific to this problem.

My USB connected printer works just fine.

Ideas??

This all started after I installed SP3.

A separate issue, but tied to the SP3 install, after the install,
Kaspersky AV started acting weird. For no apparent reason (no auto
scans are scheduled) it periodically starts scanning the entire system
and brings everything to a dismal crawl for several hours. Impossible
to get it to stop by 'normal' means. Kaspersky is going bye-bye. Any
reason to believe that Kas has anything to do with the printer problem?
.

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