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In article <GP6dnUbKnfMhvVuiRVn-iQ@comcast.com>, 
"Timothy Drouillard" <timdrouillard@comcast.net> wrote:
>If you haven't already tried this......
>
>As far as the Epson goes, you should be able to go through the 'Add a
>Printer' wizard, tell it that you're installing a local printer, tell 
>it NOT to detect it automatically.
>
>It should then ask you which port it's attached to (LPT1: normally)
>It should then pop up a list of printers to choose from.
>Select Epson on the left side
>Select Epson LQ-800 on the right side.(yes it's listed there)

Thanks for the advice Tim.  The ancient printer is now installed!
(Must say I'm pretty impressed that XP has support for such old 
peripherals!)

Returning to the "CD" problem, I'm afraid I jumped to a delusion when 
he was talking saying his new Dell "can't even see his Encyclopedia 
Britannica CDRs ..."  Well, two delusions really.  8-)

1. I meant CDs, the pressed, manufactured things, *not* CDRs.  I only 
picked up on this distinction when someone in this thread started 
talking about DirectCD and similar [thank you "someone" :-)] and

2. I was totally wrong anyway -- the bloody things are DVDs!  (The 
other program, which installed okay, was on CDs as I said before.)

Which leads me to ask -- is there something special/different about 
the way a DVD/CD_RW drive "sees" install DVDs compared with the 
various forms of CDs?  I think his old Compaq had a plain vanilla DVD 
drive, and that was no problem under Windows 98.  But now this combi 
thing under Windows XP doesn't want to know about these DVDs.

Is there some Control Panel or BIOS option that needs to be set to 
enable the DVDs to work like CDs on these things?  Or could the DVD 
function be dead and the CD_RW side of things still be working okay?


Cheers, Phred.

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