-=PCTechTalk=- Re: [Re: [Re: Printer trouble]]
- From: Hank Adams <hdka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:52:25 -0500
Hi I uninstalled then went into regedit and deleted all I could find abou=
t
Epson, Reinstalled and still get the "Can't find the default printer". I =
went
through all the troubleshooting too. This stupid computer still can't fin=
d the
printer and it is setting right beside it.
Yours Hank
taanzaa <taanzaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi:
Have you tried uninstalling and then checking your
registry for any printer values/keys removing them and
then reboot and reinstall? Just a shot in the
dark....
--- Hank Adams <hdka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you Robert, I have reinstalled the driver
> about 6 times, When I uni=3D
> nstall and reboot the computer doesn't find the
> printer then either. It i=3D s
> a cheap 3 yrs old Epson Stylus 640, No sticks. The
> printer was going th=3D
> rough the scanner but the scanner died so I started
> going to the computer=3D
> with the printer, now that the printer has died I am
> thinking it has som=3D
> ething to do with the port, But my cam works off the
> same port and it wor=3D
> ksgood. Yours Hank Robert Carneal wrote: When this
> happens to me,
> reinstalling the printer driver usually works, I=3D =3D
> would say about 19 times
> out of 20 it works. Is your printer the type that
> accepts memory sticks from
> digital cameras?=3D =3D If so, TAKE OUT THE STICK before
> you reinstall the
> printer driver. The =3D sales people told me that when
> they installed a driver
> with a stick insid=3D e =3D the printer, the printer
> "expected" that very same
> stick in all the time,=3D =3D and looks for it. (NOTE:
> This sounds a little
> fishyto me, and I have no=3D t =3D checked to verify one
> way or the other.
> Perhaps someone else on this list=3D =3D knows? -Robert)
> Robert At 10/10/2002
> 05:38 PM, you wrote: >Hi, My computer can't find my
> printer. I have checked
> everything and hav=3D e=3D3D > >reinstalled the driver,
> changed the cable from
> the computer to the print=3D e=3D3D >r. It >checks out
> ok in the system, Says it
> is on LPT1, The printer properties =3D S=3D3D >ays >LPT1
> (ECP Print Port). I
> evenreinstalled Win98 Can anyone tell me what=3D =3D3D
> >else >to do? >Yours Hank
> > =
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