Hi folks,
I have a G3 iMac 400Mhz running 10.3.9. Recently I began to have
trouble, apparently with the USB ports: nothing outright stopped
working, but suddenly the USB printer (Epson 740) would take forever to
print simple stuff, and I could barely run my USB scanner (a Canon
N670U) at all -- I got many errors "could not communicate with scanner,"
had to try 10 times to scan something once, etc. Both of these
peripherals had been in use for quite a while with the iMac with no
issues at all, until recently.
Since I need to be able to print and scan, and in a few other ways
was ready for an upgrade, I bought a refurbed G5 iMac and have moved my
operations over to the new machine (and here I offer thanks to those
listers who wrote in answer to my query on the iMac G5s). The printer
and scanner are trouble free on the new iMac and all the other Macs in
the house, but I would still like to get to the bottom of what is up
with my USB ports on the G3. The USB ports both work fine when anything
is plugged into them like a keyboard, mouse, or USB drive (I have a
Sandisk 256 Mb USB Cruzer), it's just the printer and the scanner. Is
this a familiar issue to anyone? Any info appreciated.
thanks,
Beverly
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