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Re: Booted Offline: Printer/Modem Conflict?

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From: Inflyte
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:00
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Are you using a PCI modem?  If so, it IS your ECP printer, I believe.  PCI
devices oftentimes share IRQs and, even though it'll show you (in device
mgr) that it's using a certain IRQ, it'll share another with another device
when necessary (like when it's printing!)  Get another (parallel-ported)
printer and your problem will be no longer.  By the way, what's the cable
modem problem???

Chuck <chuck@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:s2r2h1rphsq63@corp.supernews.com...
> I have a Gateway G6-266 with a built-in Telepath 56K modem.  I also have
an
> NEC SuperScript 870 printer.
>
> Every time I print anything from my computer, it disables my modem.
That's
> true whether I'm already online (I hear the "click" of being booted off,
> even though I still see the time being racked up on the Dial-Up Networking
> stats monitor), or whether I print first and then try to go online (the
> computer says it cannot detect the modem -- same for when I try to dial up
> again after having been booted off).
>
> Either way, I have to reboot to get my modem working.
>
> I looked for an IRQ conflict, by my modem is on 4 and my printer is on 7,
so
> that's doesn't seem to be the problem to me.
>
> Someone who knows suggested that it may be because I'm using an ECP
Printer
> Port, which I understand was a temporary standard and may have caused
> several problems as such.  (Not sure if this is one.)
>
> The "boot off" happens exactly at the point of the beginning of printing,
so
> I know it's related somehow.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?  I really appreciate the help.  Please post, do
not
> reply by mail.  Thanks.
>
> Chuck
>
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From: "Inflyte" <scrane@primenet.com>
Subject: Re: Booted Offline: Printer/Modem Conflict?
Date: 1999/11/15
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