From: Steve C. (stevec50_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 12:18:50 EDT
You're close. In Control Panel, System, Device
Manager, click on Ports and you will find the Infrared
ports listed there and you can disable the one using
LPT. I had to do that to get my printer to work and it
took a lot of searching to find it.
--- Chuck Blaisdell <cblaisd_at_tdl.com> wrote:
> 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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