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My LPT1 Port Stopped Working (8500 XP Pro)
Has anyone come up with a fix for the parallel ports on Inspiron models that have suddenly stopped working?
Mine stopped on 2/5/05 and I have seen posts on a few different forums across the web at about the same time dealing with Inspirons and XP having the problem. I have taken all advice given and tried it all to no avail. Port, Printer, Driver and BIOS remedies do nothing. The new message from the Tool Bar reports that data has been sent to the printer at LPT1. The Event Log reports that the data has been sent, even job size. But nothing happens to any printer on that port. Dell's diagnostics program passes the Internal Test but Fails the next two External Interrupt (on / off) Tests with Error: 3D00:0320. This computer is out of warranty.
I have the HP LJ IIIp working (slowly) on COM1 but would like to print drawings again so LPT1 is needed. The USB printer was unaffected.
Raceengineer
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Posted March 19th, 2005 09:00
I have exactly the same problem and same diag error code! with an Inspiron 8500 out of waranty too!
The printer is a HP deskjet 722C, but I use the parallele port to comunicate with data logger (it doesn't work too).
Is it a hardware problem or a software, I have the last update of Win XP SP2 Home!
Must I put my laptop 2 years old at the dustbin ?
Little Mike
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Posted March 12th, 2005 03:00
In my case, I have a Laserjet 5L. If printing doesn't begin immediately, I pick up the paper load, wait for the yellow "paper out" light to come on, put the paper back down, the green light comes on, and voila printing begins immediately.
You might try turning off bidirectional support and see if that helps.
Cheers,
-- Little Mike