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Hello,
I've having a terrible time w/ my system locking up or sometimes
suddenly rebooting which I've traced to
1) (intermitently) PRINTING and
2) 100% of the time printing from PRINT PREVIEW - yes every time.
WIthin say IE6 or Mozilla for example, I go to File->Print Preview->
within dialogue select print and KABLAM. Either the system is locked
up tight (requiring a system reboot via reset sw) or sometimes it may
do an instant reboot.
I've been looking and haven't found too many people w/ this problem so
thougth I'd post...
The system is an older Celeron w/ 256 RAM and running Win2K Pro w/ all
the latest patches and such. The printer is a Samsung ML4500 running
their driver off their site. Nothing fancy here. The system is a
recent install of OS and I've kept it lean and mean so to speak. Only
run a couple of reputable utilities (firewall & Palm sw) but otherwise
try to keep it very simple.
The printing always worked fine for a couple years now w/ same h/w
back when I ran 98SE. But just in case, I tried every permutation of
parallel port settings my BIOS offers including SPP, ECP, EPP1.7,
EPP1.9. No joy.
I fiddled w/ printer and LPT port settings a little to no avail and
returned them to their default configs. No joy.
I completely deinstalled my Iomega Zip100 parallel both in s/w and h/w
- no sign of it ever having been installed. No joy.
The system is stable otherwise as long as I stay away from printing
particularly or at least within browsers. 'Many' times it seems OK w/
printing directly but over time w/ enough prints it can go sour I
think. I have printed But going into print preview it crashes the
system EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Also I noticed within IE6 that if I move the printer dialogue around
in print preview - the background 'trail' goes white and never
refreshes as the dialogue gets moved. Not a good sign.
Any suggestions!?
I've having a terrible time w/ my system locking up or sometimes
suddenly rebooting which I've traced to
1) (intermitently) PRINTING and
2) 100% of the time printing from PRINT PREVIEW - yes every time.
WIthin say IE6 or Mozilla for example, I go to File->Print Preview->
within dialogue select print and KABLAM. Either the system is locked
up tight (requiring a system reboot via reset sw) or sometimes it may
do an instant reboot.
I've been looking and haven't found too many people w/ this problem so
thougth I'd post...
The system is an older Celeron w/ 256 RAM and running Win2K Pro w/ all
the latest patches and such. The printer is a Samsung ML4500 running
their driver off their site. Nothing fancy here. The system is a
recent install of OS and I've kept it lean and mean so to speak. Only
run a couple of reputable utilities (firewall & Palm sw) but otherwise
try to keep it very simple.
The printing always worked fine for a couple years now w/ same h/w
back when I ran 98SE. But just in case, I tried every permutation of
parallel port settings my BIOS offers including SPP, ECP, EPP1.7,
EPP1.9. No joy.
I fiddled w/ printer and LPT port settings a little to no avail and
returned them to their default configs. No joy.
I completely deinstalled my Iomega Zip100 parallel both in s/w and h/w
- no sign of it ever having been installed. No joy.
The system is stable otherwise as long as I stay away from printing
particularly or at least within browsers. 'Many' times it seems OK w/
printing directly but over time w/ enough prints it can go sour I
think. I have printed But going into print preview it crashes the
system EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Also I noticed within IE6 that if I move the printer dialogue around
in print preview - the background 'trail' goes white and never
refreshes as the dialogue gets moved. Not a good sign.
Any suggestions!?