HP7760 77% cpu usage when idle, continuous disk writes how to fix?

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I'm trying to help my neighbor debug his computer.

I reloaded the HP7760 drivers on a fresh win98SE install.
The printer consumes 77% of the cpu resource when POWERED OFF
or when on and idle.
(500 MHz P3).
If I unplug the usb cable, that drops the cpu usage to a few
percent. It's unreasonable to expect people to unplug the usb
cable to use their computer. How to fix?

When I try to run Norton Disk Doctor, it gives up saying somebody
is continuously writing to the disk. If I ctrl-alt-delete and kill
two of the many HP processes running there, the problem goes away
and Norton runs fine. A printer should NEVER write to my disk!!!

The installation disk for the printer gives NO options. It just
installs a TON of stuff. Is there a way to install JUST the printer
drivers that sit there waiting to "speak when spoken to"? Don't need
any monitor software or applications. Just the damn printer output.


Thanks,
mike


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I'm trying to help my neighbor debug his computer.

I reloaded the HP7760 drivers on a fresh win98SE install.
The printer consumes 77% of the cpu resource when POWERED OFF
or when on and idle.
(500 MHz P3).
If I unplug the usb cable, that drops the cpu usage to a few
percent. It's unreasonable to expect people to unplug the usb
cable to use their computer. How to fix?

When I try to run Norton Disk Doctor, it gives up saying somebody
is continuously writing to the disk. If I ctrl-alt-delete and kill
two of the many HP processes running there, the problem goes away
and Norton runs fine. A printer should NEVER write to my disk!!!

The installation disk for the printer gives NO options. It just
installs a TON of stuff. Is there a way to install JUST the printer
drivers that sit there waiting to "speak when spoken to"? Don't need
any monitor software or applications. Just the damn printer output.
Click to expand...

Have you tried manually installing the driver? ie: control panel, add
printer, and do it from there?

Have you tried downloading an updated driver from HP and using that
rather than from the disk?
 
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