nutsadamus

Do other USB devices work? Are you sure USB is enabled in the BIOS? I have mine working on Win2k without issue

Hello there, Hopefully someone can help me out... I have a win2k machine and 98se machine hooked up using a linksys befsr41. File sharing is working fine between the two. The printer, HP photosmart 1115, is physically connected to the win2k machine and I have it set up to share. Well, the printer shows up on 98's network neighborhood, but wants to install drivers for it. Here lies the problem. I tried installing the printer drivers using the cd that came with the printer, but cannot complete installation because it eventually wants me to plug the printer in. Also, i tried browsing the printer cd for the correct inf file but there are several inf's and none of them seemed to work. Kept getting a popup that said "this file does not have information for your printer" or something similiar. I'm still not sure if I have to do something on the win2k machine, or the 98 machine to get this to work. Any help would be appreciated. You'd think the HP support site would have some info regarding printer sharing, but I could find nothing after an hour of digging. thanks, nuts

never mind, got it figured out. Was just a matter of digging around the driver cd that came with the printer and finding an inf file that worked. The file was buried pretty good. Is there supposed to be an easier way of doing this?

on the 98 machine, I went to settings , printers, add printer, network printer, and then i'm back to the whole trying to find the drivers rigamarole. I have the dang disk, but cannot find the correct file. I keep winding up at the Add Printer Wizard where my printer isn't listed.

dude, can you be a bit more specific? I'm kind of a dope.

ok, so i I found the "additional drivers" button on the printer's properties screen on the win2k machine. And i checkmark 98/95, but then I'm stuck. The win2k disk doesn't have the drivers on it because its a newer printer I guess. I try to browse the printer cd too, but cannot find the right freaking file. Stoopid HP....

Howdy, Just a quick question, For some reason, O & O isn't seeing one of my partitions. I have 2 physical drives, the 1st one is broken up into 6 partitions (c:,d:,f:,g:,h: and i: ), and the 2nd one into 2 partitions (pagefile, and K: ) They are all NTFS. Well, K isn't being seen at all in O & O. Is there a limit to the number of partitions O & O will recognize? Thanks for any insight. By the way, using win2k sp3 and the pro version of O & O

Thanks for the reply, I already checked the permissions and everything seems fine, all my drives are set the same and have full access. Any other ideas? Tried getting in touch with them but no reply yet. Anyway, appreciate the suggestions.

Hi all, I made the very stupid suggestion to a friend that i help build him a computer. It worked fine for 3 days and then started randomly rebooting itself. The reboot is accompanied by an audible click, as if a breaker is switching on the motherboard. Sometimes it reboots fine, other times it just dies and hitting the power button does nothing. After a minute or so, it starts up again by itself. Uninstalled all but the essentials from the machine. Left the hd, video card, cd-rom and reinstalled win2k. That didn't help either. I thought maybe it was a driver or irq issue, but i doubt it now. I unchecked the "auto reboot on error" option but it still just seems to power right off without a blue screen or any error message. The only things i can think to do is try a new power supply or memory stick. Any thoughts? It's a 1.8 northwood and asus p4b266 mobo. nvidia geforce 2 gts, 256mb crucial 2100, netgear ethernet card, lite on cdrw. My buddy had a monitor that was intermittently doing this flickering/popping thing. Is it possible a bad monitor could fry the motherboard? One other thing. When i installed WIndows the 1st time, I installed as Standard PC. I tried reinstalling as ACPI after all hell broke loose, but that didn't seem to help cuz it rebooted itself the first time windows came up after the install. I'm still not sure if its a hardware or software issue, although if a win2k reinstall didn't solve it, I'm leaning towards it being a hardware issue. Valuable lesson #1: Don't offer to build someone a computer unless you have a loner for them when it inevitably breaks down. I'll take any suggestions before I tell him to ship back the whole lot for a refund.