USE THE WEB CHAT SUPPORT from HP.com! It will be similar to an IM session.
Trust me on this one. Do not call. Their indian accents are impossible to
understand, but they have better grammar when typing than most Americans.
From: Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Printer Recommendation
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 13:13:05 -0700
The first thing I would do is to contact HP, you can post this in their
forums. This may be an anomaly on your board that they have a work around
for. I have a HP scanner that wouldn't install on my new board. I called
tech and it turned out to be a problem known to them, and they had a work
around for it.
At 12:32 PM 5/14/2006, you wrote:
Dear List:
I have an HP Photosmart 1315 printer which works...it's good enough for
what I need to print at home.
However, I cannot get it to work on my main machine. In fact, I've always
had problems with this printer on this machine (gigabyte mobo). I can use
this printer on my laptop and on my ripping machine (which is currently
down due to some XP bootup issue) with no issues. I'd added various USB
powered hubs to my main machine, in addition to the ones installed on the
mobo. Right now I have over 10 usb connections on this machine, but the
HP printer software driver won't recognize the printer and thus won't
install. I note that when I plug the printer cable into ANY usb port on
this machine, the machine gives the characteristic beep indicating a
connection. But the software won't install. It doesn't seem to make sense
that the PC can see a USB device but the software won't install.
I'm feed up. Ready to drop coin.....what should I do? A friend recently
bought a HP printer that has wireless networking built in....that seems
like an attractive option since I could make all of my PC print from it
over the network. But I'm wondering if I should just look at some other
brand. I don't want to move to a new mobo at this time as I don't feel
the need to upgrade. Which printers should I look at? I'd rather not
drop major bucks but I want something at least as good as what i have now.
It is possible to have too many USB ports on a machine? The latest one is
bus driven, BTW. It still doesn't work.
