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11-13-2007, 10:24 PM
First, a quick background -
I've been using this particular three-in-one scanner-printer for several years, with windoze xp, and had absolutely no problems with it.
Then - My old pc died of sheer exhaustion and old age, so I bought a brannie new one, with a dual core pentium and all the bells and whistles, and - AAARGH - Vista.
None of my ham programmes would run with vista, including the local telnet cluster, and the pc wouldn't talk to the printer, no matter what I did.
So after a lot of pratting about, I binned Vista, and put xp back in the new machine.
Everything worked just fine, then, including the three-in-one.
Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, then the printer went on strike, kept telling me that there was no communication. So I checked all the plugs, rebooted everything, etc, re-ran the drivers in the repair mode, and nothing.
So I did a full delete, and reload of the drivers, and - nothing. The pc kept telling me that there was no printer connected. So I removed the usb cable from round the back, and stuffed it into the front socket. Still nothing. Baffled, I plugged the same usb lead into my clockwork pentium one laptop, (which NEVER sees the inet, it is too slow and clunky), and the printer worked just fine!
Plug it back into the pc, and nothing.
Control panel - printers - says the thing is working just fine, and that there are dozens of items in the queue.
While I was trying deleting different bugs and fixes (auto downloads) I managed to zap xp, so I had to do a full format c and restart.
Everything was fine, printer worked - for about a week, then stopped again!
Penny dropped, in between uses of the printer, I'd allowed the weekly auto download updates to run.
Now comes the conspiracy theory.
After a bit of digging, I found that Lexmark has withdrawn the X1100 series.
Now - are they deliberately downloading bugs that block the older models, to 'encourage' victims to buy new printers?
I know that it isn't legal to DO that, but how would anyone prove it?
Has anyone else out there had a similar problem?
I may be adding two and two, and getting five, but how come the printer will work from the laptop, but not the main pc which is attached to the world via that little blue wire?
The same usb cable is used, and the only plug that was moved was the one that was in the pc, and went from there to the laptop.
I await your comments.
I've been using this particular three-in-one scanner-printer for several years, with windoze xp, and had absolutely no problems with it.
Then - My old pc died of sheer exhaustion and old age, so I bought a brannie new one, with a dual core pentium and all the bells and whistles, and - AAARGH - Vista.
None of my ham programmes would run with vista, including the local telnet cluster, and the pc wouldn't talk to the printer, no matter what I did.
So after a lot of pratting about, I binned Vista, and put xp back in the new machine.
Everything worked just fine, then, including the three-in-one.
Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, then the printer went on strike, kept telling me that there was no communication. So I checked all the plugs, rebooted everything, etc, re-ran the drivers in the repair mode, and nothing.
So I did a full delete, and reload of the drivers, and - nothing. The pc kept telling me that there was no printer connected. So I removed the usb cable from round the back, and stuffed it into the front socket. Still nothing. Baffled, I plugged the same usb lead into my clockwork pentium one laptop, (which NEVER sees the inet, it is too slow and clunky), and the printer worked just fine!
Plug it back into the pc, and nothing.
Control panel - printers - says the thing is working just fine, and that there are dozens of items in the queue.
While I was trying deleting different bugs and fixes (auto downloads) I managed to zap xp, so I had to do a full format c and restart.
Everything was fine, printer worked - for about a week, then stopped again!
Penny dropped, in between uses of the printer, I'd allowed the weekly auto download updates to run.
Now comes the conspiracy theory.
After a bit of digging, I found that Lexmark has withdrawn the X1100 series.
Now - are they deliberately downloading bugs that block the older models, to 'encourage' victims to buy new printers?
I know that it isn't legal to DO that, but how would anyone prove it?
Has anyone else out there had a similar problem?
I may be adding two and two, and getting five, but how come the printer will work from the laptop, but not the main pc which is attached to the world via that little blue wire?
The same usb cable is used, and the only plug that was moved was the one that was in the pc, and went from there to the laptop.
I await your comments.