turn on printer and broadband turns into dialup

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A neighbor installed a Canon printer in an XP system with Comcast broadband
cat5'ed to a nic card.

With the printer off, all is as usual.

Hit the power switch and the internet screeches to a
snail's pace. Just like, or even worse than dial-up.

Anybody have any ideas on what's causing this?

I couldn't find anything.

Thanks,

Mike
 
ESCD, hmmm.... never heard of it.
Reset? As in there is an option under a fild named ESCD
of reset somewhere in the bios, or reset as in pull the battery and jumper
the clear cmos pins?
 
`AMD tower said:
ESCD, hmmm.... never heard of it.
Reset? As in there is an option under a fild named ESCD
of reset somewhere in the bios, or reset as in pull the battery and jumper
the clear cmos pins?
Click to expand...

that would do it also,, however in the bios 'reset configuration data'
YES/NO exists?
 
Long long ago, that would have been one of those
decrepit 3Com cards that demanded a special
interrupt .. generally IRQ 3 or 5. See if the stupid
thing has a coax connector.

johns
 
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JAD said:
that would do it also,, however in the bios 'reset configuration data'
YES/NO exists?
Click to expand...

don't know. will check when next I go over his
house to work on it. thanks.
 
thanks Jad, for your help. I set the mobo to defaults, etc.,
this morning, but still got the problem.
I fixed it, though, sort of.
Guess what? Well, he had a usb2
card installed, and the printer was plugged into that.
I pulled it, and plugged into a USB1 slot on the mobo, and that solved the
problem.
The card was installed correctly, no yellow exclaimation marks in hardware
device, etc. so... ??? Not a "real" fix, but an acceptable workaround.

Mike
 
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