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Recently changed up to XP home w/SP2 and now computer will not see my
printer connected to lpt1.
When I first upgraded, the printer showed in device manager with a yellow
flag; but I ignored it as I went about other tasks related to the upgrade in
OS, and I did not need the printer anyway.
Somewhere along the line it ceased to show in device manager at all.
Can xp/sp2 "learn" to ignore a device with time?!
Not too important to me at the moment, as I don't think there is an XP
compliant driver for the printer (Fargo Primera) anyway, but curious as to
what is going on, and wondering whether something is permanently fubar in
hardware or xp to prevent me from ever using lpt1.
Device manager shows lpt1 (and all devices) as healthy.
Do not have another parallel device to hook up to lpt1 to check with. Any
other tools to diagnose the port?
I did use regclean to remove reference to a defunct (previous) printer (HP
deskjet 610) prior to installing xp/sp2.
TIA for any help.
Recently changed up to XP home w/SP2 and now computer will not see my
printer connected to lpt1.
When I first upgraded, the printer showed in device manager with a yellow
flag; but I ignored it as I went about other tasks related to the upgrade in
OS, and I did not need the printer anyway.
Somewhere along the line it ceased to show in device manager at all.
Can xp/sp2 "learn" to ignore a device with time?!
Not too important to me at the moment, as I don't think there is an XP
compliant driver for the printer (Fargo Primera) anyway, but curious as to
what is going on, and wondering whether something is permanently fubar in
hardware or xp to prevent me from ever using lpt1.
Device manager shows lpt1 (and all devices) as healthy.
Do not have another parallel device to hook up to lpt1 to check with. Any
other tools to diagnose the port?
I did use regclean to remove reference to a defunct (previous) printer (HP
deskjet 610) prior to installing xp/sp2.
TIA for any help.