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"imbsysop" <imbsysop@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <zZXN5.73965$iI2.1618844@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>, "Jef"
<jan.smith@pandora.be> wrote:
> >The solution was reinstalling windows.
> >Bidirectional communication works with my old 386 computer.
> >
> >The lesson: don't search, just reinstall, start from zero
>
> bollocks .. that's why Win users stay dumb !!
> We run 100+ PCs in a multinetwork environment & we've NEVER done a clean
> re-install ... we try to analyse/diagnose symptoms and then remove the
cause
> . in short .. we think ..

Congratulations mr imbsysop. You are genious. Lets start insulting each
other.
You better think twice before you start insulting people you don't know.
What makes you conclude that I did not think before reinstalling?

I may be not so smart as you consider yourself, but I have spend many hours,
days... on resolving all sort of computer problems and this are my
conclusions:
- you never know what the user has been doing with the configuration: change
settings, deleting files, installing software... . Because of this, computer
service technicians often simply re-stage networkstations, instead of
searching the problem, which takes often more time.
- (printer)drivers are upgraded very often. Old problems in drivers are
solved, new problems are created...
- quite often no error messages appear, or error messages with false
information, or, error in memory adress ..., or GPF, doctor watson,....
- if you read the reactions on my question, you see very different solutions
and remarks. You must assume that these people are stupid and unexperienced
too?
- the help you get from helpdesks /manufacturers is often very bad.
According to HP :

>Hi Jef,
>The 640 will not work on a 386, however it will on a 486.  A majority if
>not all of the Deskjet 600 series have that minimal requirement that was
>stated in previous email.

After 4 hours of *thinking*, trying, reading, searching, reinstalling
drivers, ... a simple reinstall of windows made it really work on the 386,
with bidirectional communication.