Head said:
Also, try a different USB cable. Then, if you can, try the printer on a
diff PC.
Question:
In what sequence did you remove all of your USB devices from devmgmt.msc ?
You should look at this sequence on any MS support site or newsgroup (I
found an issue on MS support site a while ago ... did not save it, sorry.
Check also your drivers for the latest versions with your
hardware-vendor or with MS (remember, Windows Update can tighten
security on printer SYS-drivers of application DLL's that used to be
"okay").
I'm having similar problems with connecting a external USB-hardrive with
extra USB-ports on it (internal HUB on the drive, extra USB2.0 PCI-card
has many driver-options for the ALI USB Chip !*X?!@).
In my case WinXP SP2 shuts down services and or refuses DLL's that are
NOT registered by MS als "Windows Logo Compliant".
In my case:
Try using a cool external drive from Trekstor that always works fine on
PC's with XP SP1 or a PC with a on-board USB 2.0 mainboard controller.
My own MSI mainboard is five years old with USB 1.1 controller and a
extra USB2.0 add-on PCI-card with an Ali chip.
Yes, I even updated my BIOS and USB1.1 MB controller is NOT used on
advice of the Trekstor supportdesk in Germany, still the following problem.
Try getting that external drive to work every now and then, after the
next cold shutdown the thing is a not "recogniced device"
(removing the USB PCI-card and installing the drivers again works fine,
after a cold shutdown the thing is not recognised anymore ...)
I used that Trekstor several times at max. speeds of 13 Mb/sec along
with two internal hard-drives, two Plextor CD-RW and DVD-RW and a
DVD_ROM (Nero cache benchmark, simple and accurate).
My Trekstor manual says the 80GB hard-drive can operate on a max speed
of 26 Mb ?!
I even tried several different IDE setups: three or two ATA IDE
connectors on the mainboard and three or four on the extra RAID PCI-card
(I'am using three internal ATA133 IDE hard-drives, three internal ATAPI
optical drives and two optional external USB harddrives).
I guess moving to a newer mainboard thus the trick, buying a new PC also
(ATA133 Maxtor harddrives on a ATA100 controller, oeps ?).
Fact is this PC is upgraded and tuned, very stable and fast (one 200 GB
ATA133 on MB-controller, two 80 Gb and 300 Gb ATA133 on RAID ATA133
controller, no mirroring of mirror-striping - Vivanco UDMA133 RAID-chip
is fast and reliable, forget RAID !
The ATA100 mainboard controller cannot pull the workload from time to
time, off-loading it to the PCI ATA133 RAID controller works better but
XP assigns the mainboard DMA-channels dynamically !
Try handling that the way YOU want...
Even worse:
Ever heard of a "UDMA" SHUTDOWN ?
MS support knew a work-around for this hidden feature within XP:
One hardrive was stepped down from UDMA-mode to PIO-3 level, only the MS
solution proved to be wrong ... I fixed it by disconnecting the
IDE-cable and cold reboot two times BEFORE reconnecting IDE and final
reboot (80GB drive went back to operating with 54 Mb/Sec instead of 5
MB/sec).
XP devmgmt.msc is a tricky feature, poor logging and never a explanation
on screen what it is doin' !
A clean Windows install on a house-hold PC works fine, try using a
expensive PC-configuration for real ITC ...
This has to be a hobby, otherwise people go nuts !
Dummy
