grrr.....
In the midst of getting grades in a neighbor just HAD to have me look at their computer, it JUST would not print!!
I should have known better than to go....
It was on a jammed up little student desk with other desks and paraphanalia and I couldn't easily get at the back of the thing it was a laptop.
I looked at the usb port in the back and the printer was, indeed plugged in.
So, after slogging through the XP system several times I finally said ok, it might be the port, so I unplugged it from the back and put it in a side port and it worked fine.
Ok so I put it back ....on the back....in the same place from where I had removed the usb plug but it just would NOT go in.....so, at the great risk of unplugging untold other paraphanalia......
I lifted the laptop and looked physically at where it had been previously plugged in.....
the ethernet port!! > > >
How they jammed a usb plug into the ehternet port I can't understand.
I forgot my FIRST RULE.....check the hardware FIRST!!! > > >
I hope that others will learn from my lesson!
rant over!
woodchagrinedsmoke
In the midst of getting grades in a neighbor just HAD to have me look at their computer, it JUST would not print!!
I should have known better than to go....
It was on a jammed up little student desk with other desks and paraphanalia and I couldn't easily get at the back of the thing it was a laptop.
I looked at the usb port in the back and the printer was, indeed plugged in.
So, after slogging through the XP system several times I finally said ok, it might be the port, so I unplugged it from the back and put it in a side port and it worked fine.
Ok so I put it back ....on the back....in the same place from where I had removed the usb plug but it just would NOT go in.....so, at the great risk of unplugging untold other paraphanalia......
I lifted the laptop and looked physically at where it had been previously plugged in.....
the ethernet port!! > > >
How they jammed a usb plug into the ehternet port I can't understand.
I forgot my FIRST RULE.....check the hardware FIRST!!! > > >
I hope that others will learn from my lesson!
rant over!
woodchagrinedsmoke
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