Apache Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 Quite often I want to print pages from this forum when connecetd. I know about saving pages as HTML and text files etc but sometimes I'd just like to hit the print button. When I do nothing happens though sometimes, when I disconnect and close IE5, the page prints? Is this a common problem and is there a way round it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 hey, What OS are you using? Do you get any error messages? Does opening the file dropdown menu then selecting print work? [ January 30, 2002, 01:32 PM: Message edited by: Dogface ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Posted January 30, 2002 Author Share Posted January 30, 2002 I'm on Win 98. The drop down menu comes down but when I select print nothing else happens. Today, again however, I closed IE5 down, disconnected from the net and it printed (just the first page of an article though). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 What printer do you have and what connection does it use to your computer, parallel or USB ? Do you know if you have the latest drivers ? Is your interface that hooks up to the printer sharing an IRQ with (I assume) your modem ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Posted January 31, 2002 Author Share Posted January 31, 2002 It's an Epson Stylus 760 Colour. It's on a parallel. I am not sure about the drivers, I think they are the ones it came with. I have no idea about the IRQ? How do I check? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted January 31, 2002 Share Posted January 31, 2002 Go to Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > System control panel > Device Manager tab > hightlight the 'Computer' icon and click on the Properties button. The list that comes up is your IRQ usage. Parallel ports typically take IRQ 7 and usually shouldn't be sharing them with other devices, but it happens sometimes. In this case your parallel port may be sharing an IRQ with a PCI device like your modem. It looks like you may have the latest driver according to this listing. The latest for Windows 98 is 5.0CE released 12/15/99, you can check the listing here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apache Posted February 2, 2002 Author Share Posted February 2, 2002 The parallel is on 07. On 12 I have 'ACPI IRQ holder for PCI IRQ Steering' (that is alo on 10) AND 'Sup 2850 PCI Modem Enumerator'. Does that make sense to you? [ February 02, 2002, 07:32 AM: Message edited by: Apache ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted February 2, 2002 Share Posted February 2, 2002 I expected to see the parallel port on IRQ 7. The ACPI stuff makes sense to me too. With ACPI on, typically most PCI/AGP devices will be sharing a single IRQ (I'm not sure if that is always the case in Windows 9x/ME). From what you've told me the modem and the parallel port should not be conflicting, so the cause is something else other than an IRQ conflict. ACPI could be a factor in this problem. Windows 9x/ME wasn't really written with ACPI in mind and even more importantly many device drivers may not fully cooperate with the way that ACPI manages the resources on a computer. The driver for you modem may be a piece of software that doesn't work very well with ACPI. Although I have no idea why printing would be the problem (since your parallel port isn't using an IRQ that's being shared via ACPI). Unfortunately there is no easy way to deconfigure ACPI. It usually involves turning off ACPI support in the CMOS/BIOS setup and reinstalling Windows (which doesn't always go as planned). The printer driver I listed above is fairly old, but you may want to double check your version to make sure it isn't older (usually you can find this info in the Properties tabs of the printer in the Printers Folder). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogface Posted February 2, 2002 Share Posted February 2, 2002 Hey, here is a good link for micro$ofts knowledge base. it might help some all I could find tho was to replace your Iepeers.dll file which is some work hope this helps 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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