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by hst125

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HI
I have a small home network and the setup is cable modem to SMC router 7004br with HP Lasetjet 2100 connected to the printer port, I have 3 PC's on the lan ONE with 98se TWO win 2000 pro THREE win xp pro. All ok till now when out of the blue theprinter will not respond when trying to print from the XP machine ok on the other two. Any thoughts please.
thank you

john

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by sgt_shultz

assuming LAN connections are otherwise ok, just no printing...try stopping and restarting the print spooler service on the bad XP box...you could do the same thing more forcefully by uninstalling and reinstalling the printer driver there...has loginto XP box changed? can printer be seen in Printers? is printer paused? anything in event viewer?

by hst125

To SGT SHULTZ thank you for your comments I had tryed your suggestions .There is nothing in the event viewer though. One thing that happend just befor it stopped working was that there was three bleeps the last few times it did print, I now that in the bleep code that means BASE 64-KBYTES memory failure (AMI BIOS)would this be relevant do you think.

Thank you for your time

John

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