From: Chuck Blaisdell (cblaisd_at_tdl.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 11:25:55 EDT
When I go into Control Panel and click on "Infrared", it says that
"Infrarded is providing application support on Com 4 and Lpt 3"
There is no option to change anything. Disabling Infrared from
there doesn't affect the problem. Or have I misunderstood you?
Thanks.
On 2 Sep 2000, at 7:32, Steve C. wrote:
> It's possible that the port might just be bad but it
> may be that something else is using that port and
> blocks printing. For instance, if you have recently
> configured the IR port for wireless communication it
> can use the printer port as well as the serial port.
> I ran into that once with IR. The solution is to go
> into control panel and disable the lpt port for IR
> communications. If you remove it, windows will just
> find and install it again next time when you reboot.
>
> --- STeve Andre' <andres_at_msu.edu> wrote:
> > The first thing I'd do is hook the printer up to
> > another computer, to see
> > if the printer is OK. The second thing would be to
> > hook up another
> > printer to the suspect computer. Doing those two
> > things will give
> > you a pretty good clue what's wrong.
> >
> > If both work, then you have one of the just wondrous
> > spontaneous
> > Windows mess ups, and I'm not sure what is the best
> > course for
> > that. Off hand, I'd delete every printer in the
> > system--every one--
> > and then reboot, then add that printer again.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, I'd ask here again and maybe
> > someone will
> > have an answer. ;-)
> >
> > --STeve Andre'
> >
> > At 06:57 PM 9/1/00 -0700, Chuck Blaisdell wrote:
> > >I don't have a clue as to whether this a hardware
> > or Win98Se
> > >problem or ???
> > >Computer/OS: Thinkpad600E, 128mb ram, Win98SE
> > >All of a sudden, when I try to print to my HP
> > LaserJet 1100, I get the
> > >following error message: "There was an error
> > writing to LPT 1: (for
> > >the
> > >Printer HP Laser Jet 1100): There was a problem
> > printing to the
> > >port. Check
> > >to make sure your printer is configured to use a
> > valid port."
> > >As to the obvious question, yes, it is configured
> > for LPT 1. The error
> > >occurs whether or not the printer/printer cable (or
> > ANY printer/cable)
> > >are
> > >attached when attempted to print to that printer. I
> > have re-installed
> > >the
> > >HP driver software, re-initialized the bios, and
> > run the bios
> > >diagnostic
> > >check on the port (which says the port is ok).
> > >Any ideas? Thanks much!
> >
>
>
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