Windows keeps finding printer after driver installed

First and fore most- I HATE HP PRINTERS (INKJETS)

I have never had more problems with HP printers than with any other printer.

After installing the printer drivers for an HP 890C, I reboot. Windows says found new hardware. Manually specified the location of the driver. Reboot, same thing!

So, I thought may be it is because I didn't run the setup executable from the CD. So I did that. No go.

I even went into BIOS and change Plug n Play OS to NO.

No change.

Here is the system config.

Win98SE
P3 800
256 MB PC133
ABIT VA6
Creative Live Value
32MB S3
Plextor 8/4/32
Toshiba DVD 12X
Floppy
250MB Zip (IDE)
30G HDD
300W Power SUpply
Creative Modem Blaster
Logitech Trackball mouse
Microsoft Kbd

anything else that I am forgetting? Spent three hours at the customers trying to figure this issue out.

Note: Norton was not installed. No antivirus was running at the time.


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Say what?

Next time it boots, let it find the printer and go about the steps of finding a driver for it.
This time uncheck all drives and any paths to the location of the driver and keep on clicking NEXT and FINISHED, and it will not bother you the next time you reboot.


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An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

10x for the reply Eagle
But what causing Windows to such behaviour?
Any information would make us wiser

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It Works Better if you Plug it in, It Works far better if you Turn it ON!

I have had the same situation!!! First make sure in the BIOS the printer port is set as ECP and not EPP or Bidirectional. If you have the printer in a switch I recommend you to install it directly to the PC. Then boot to Windows and cancel the new printer hardware install at bootup. If you don't have the latest drivers from HP's site I advise you to get them. Then run the downloaded setup file and choose the "Remove HP Deskjet 890C Series Software" option and follow the instructions to remove any traces of the drivers. Then restart the PC and at bootup it will show the new hardware install and browse to the area of the new drivers and let Windows install them. Hopefully it will never bother you again. It worked for me and I hope it work for you!!! https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Aim for the best you can!!!

The part where I don't specify a location and let it go as an unknown device, I tried that but I got the same result.

Onething did catch my attention- switching the parallel port to ECP.

Will check that.... hopefully that's the end. Usually I change the parallen port to ECP when i boot up the mbd the very first time, but I don't recall doing it on this one.

I will check and if it does help, report back

Thanks for all your help guys! *sob* you have been life savers quite a few times- I hope I can help someone like you guys do.

P.S. In the meantime if any of you has any more suggestions or comments, please do post them!
https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Say what?

[This message has been edited by pm4345 (edited February 12, 2001).]