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I have a HP pavilion computer and a HP deskjet 697C printer. All of a sudden my printer began to print out ascii characters instead of what I wanted. uninstalled programs loaded after it started. reloaded the printer driver. when trying to install the printer driver, the program does not notice the printer @ LPT1 (and it is there). removed device from system device menu and reloaded that. It started to print right, but then went back to the characters. Had blue screen with something about "too many VXD drivers" from time to time, but have no idea if it is related. Down to wits end. Any of these symptoms ring any bells? any help would be great.
Name: wawadave Date: May 25, 2002 at 18:03:30 Pacific
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hello 1 goto housecall anti virus to rule ot virus. 2 goto device manager in safe mode and and look for ghost copys of devices like more than one printer. post back in new thread if you fined dubles your not sure of. if you fined more than one printer remove all reboot. you might want to try these ater to make your computer run well http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/18106.html how 2 run m.e well ver.3
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