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[Guest Jason James]

Ithought I'd let you and the group know what ended up happening re getting a

(2007 model) new CX5500 Epson printer/copier/scanner to get the printer to

work on an win98se operating sys.

 

Initially, I thought I had done the install properly,..and it's not

difficult, the Epson CD is for install-dummies,...still the printer didnt

work, the PC just chucked up an error message saying "cant see device" on

USBPRNT1 (or close to that).

 

Franc's USB program indicated the PC was aware an Epson had been installed,

connected to USB 1. I tried different cables, checked all the files on C:,

and there were about 10 of them. There were Epson Icons on the desk-top for

its 3 functions, but nogo.

 

In sheer frustration I decided to uninstall and try a new install. Warning

here, the program "add/remove" icon in "settings" gives the impression

everything is gone,..not true. Did a file search for "Epson", and there were

about 8 things left. Manually deleted these, and tried a new install. It

worked!

The only thing I can remember that I might have stuffed up, is after the

install said "connect USB cable then turn printer turned on", I think I

turned the printer off again after that step and I also had the cable in USB

2 (on the left handside of USB 1) Anyway thanx for the help people! Without

this group I would have swimming around in the muck still :-)

 

Jason

[Guest Franc Zabkar]

Re: Ping: Franc & MEB et al.

 

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:05:23 +1000, "Jason James" <at@peace.com> put

finger to keyboard and composed:

>Ithought I'd let you and the group know what ended up happening re getting a

>(2007 model) new CX5500 Epson printer/copier/scanner to get the printer to

>work on an win98se operating sys.

>

>Initially, I thought I had done the install properly,..and it's not

>difficult, the Epson CD is for install-dummies,...still the printer didnt

>work, the PC just chucked up an error message saying "cant see device" on

>USBPRNT1 (or close to that).

>

>Franc's USB program indicated the PC was aware an Epson had been installed,

>connected to USB 1. I tried different cables, checked all the files on C:,

>and there were about 10 of them. There were Epson Icons on the desk-top for

>its 3 functions, but nogo.

>

>In sheer frustration I decided to uninstall and try a new install. Warning

>here, the program "add/remove" icon in "settings" gives the impression

>everything is gone,..not true. Did a file search for "Epson", and there were

>about 8 things left. Manually deleted these, and tried a new install. It

>worked!

>The only thing I can remember that I might have stuffed up, is after the

>install said "connect USB cable then turn printer turned on", I think I

>turned the printer off again after that step and I also had the cable in USB

>2 (on the left handside of USB 1) Anyway thanx for the help people! Without

>this group I would have swimming around in the muck still :-)

>

>Jason

 

After inserting a USB device and aborting its installation, the

following key in your registry may still contain some remnant:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\USB

 

In your case you may have had an entry with a VID (vendor ID) and PID

(product ID) matching what you saw with UVCView. This would have been

your Epson printer. Epson's VID is 04B8.

 

If you're having trouble identifying a particular entry, then this

resource may help:

 

http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

 

Otherwise here are the VIDs that I've extracted from UVCView and

usbview:

 

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/uvcview_vid_nam.txt

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/usbview_vid_nam.txt

 

- Franc Zabkar

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[Guest Jason James]

Re: Ping: Franc & MEB et al.

 

 

"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message

news:5ia074pk8n036eu1otvkme2jm1sjld79ps@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:05:23 +1000, "Jason James" <at@peace.com> put

> finger to keyboard and composed:

>

> >Ithought I'd let you and the group know what ended up happening re

getting a

> >(2007 model) new CX5500 Epson printer/copier/scanner to get the printer

to

> >work on an win98se operating sys.

> >

> >Initially, I thought I had done the install properly,..and it's not

> >difficult, the Epson CD is for install-dummies,...still the printer didnt

> >work, the PC just chucked up an error message saying "cant see device" on

> >USBPRNT1 (or close to that).

> >

> >Franc's USB program indicated the PC was aware an Epson had been

installed,

> >connected to USB 1. I tried different cables, checked all the files on

C:,

> >and there were about 10 of them. There were Epson Icons on the desk-top

for

> >its 3 functions, but nogo.

> >

> >In sheer frustration I decided to uninstall and try a new install.

Warning

> >here, the program "add/remove" icon in "settings" gives the impression

> >everything is gone,..not true. Did a file search for "Epson", and there

were

> >about 8 things left. Manually deleted these, and tried a new install. It

> >worked!

> >The only thing I can remember that I might have stuffed up, is after the

> >install said "connect USB cable then turn printer turned on", I think I

> >turned the printer off again after that step and I also had the cable in

USB

> >2 (on the left handside of USB 1) Anyway thanx for the help people!

Without

> >this group I would have swimming around in the muck still :-)

> >

> >Jason

>

> After inserting a USB device and aborting its installation, the

> following key in your registry may still contain some remnant:

>

> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\USB

>

> In your case you may have had an entry with a VID (vendor ID) and PID

> (product ID) matching what you saw with UVCView. This would have been

> your Epson printer. Epson's VID is 04B8.

>

> If you're having trouble identifying a particular entry, then this

> resource may help:

>

> http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

>

> Otherwise here are the VIDs that I've extracted from UVCView and

> usbview:

>

> http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/uvcview_vid_nam.txt

> http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/usbview_vid_nam.txt

>

> - Franc Zabkar

 

Thanx for that Franc. At the moment I'm a bit wary of touching anything,.but

if I understand what you are saying, there maybe double entries in the

Registry?

When I was manually deleting files left over from the 1st install, I used

the date of that 1st install as a guide, along with "Epson" mentioned in

eacxh file's "properties".

 

Jason

[Guest MEB]

Re: Ping: Franc & MEB et al.

 

In news:48712ddd$0$1207$c30e37c6@pit-reader.telstra.net at ,

Jason James contemplated and posted:

| "Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message

| news:5ia074pk8n036eu1otvkme2jm1sjld79ps@4ax.com...

|> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:05:23 +1000, "Jason James" <at@peace.com> put

|> finger to keyboard and composed:

|>

|> >Ithought I'd let you and the group know what ended up happening re

|> >getting a (2007 model) new CX5500 Epson printer/copier/scanner to

|> >get the printer to work on an win98se operating sys.

|> >

|> >Initially, I thought I had done the install properly,..and it's not

|> >difficult, the Epson CD is for install-dummies,...still the printer

|> >didn't work, the PC just chucked up an error message saying "cant

|> >see device" on USBPRNT1 (or close to that).

|> >

|> >Franc's USB program indicated the PC was aware an Epson had been

|> >installed, connected to USB 1. I tried different cables, checked

|> >all the files on C:, and there were about 10 of them. There were

|> >Epson Icons on the desk-top for its 3 functions, but no go.

|> >

|> >In sheer frustration I decided to uninstall and try a new install.

|> >Warning here, the program "add/remove" icon in "settings" gives the

|> >impression everything is gone,..not true. Did a file search for

|> >"Epson", and there were about 8 things left. Manually deleted

|> >these, and tried a new install. It worked!

|> >The only thing I can remember that I might have stuffed up, is

|> >after the install said "connect USB cable then turn printer turned

|> >on", I think I turned the printer off again after that step and I

|> >also had the cable in USB 2 (on the left hand side of USB 1) Anyway

|> >thanx for the help people! Without this group I would have swimming

|> >around in the muck still :-)

|> >

|> >Jason

|>

|> After inserting a USB device and aborting its installation, the

|> following key in your registry may still contain some remnant:

|>

|> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\USB

|>

|> In your case you may have had an entry with a VID (vendor ID) and PID

|> (product ID) matching what you saw with UVCView. This would have been

|> your Epson printer. Epson's VID is 04B8.

|>

|> If you're having trouble identifying a particular entry, then this

|> resource may help:

|>

|> http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

|>

|> Otherwise here are the VIDs that I've extracted from UVCView and

|> usbview:

|>

|> http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/uvcview_vid_nam.txt

|> http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/usbview_vid_nam.txt

|>

|> - Franc Zabkar

|

| Thanx for that Franc. At the moment I'm a bit wary of touching

| anything,.but if I understand what you are saying, there maybe double

| entries in the Registry?

| When I was manually deleting files left over from the 1st install, I

| used the date of that 1st install as a guide, along with "Epson"

| mentioned in each file's "properties".

|

| Jason

 

We're glad you got it up and running. Sorry for the late reply, went

hiking, camping and climbing at Red River Gorge..

 

Yeah, cleanup can be one of the most important aspects when attempting to

deal with puzzling installation failures, or even from previously working

devices that suddenly fail..Re-installing the driver may leave old entries

in

the registry which can conflict, at times, with the "new" installation.

The USB1 verses 2 wouldn't have been an issue [unless you then moved it to

a different port WITHOUT it being properly setup and then re-installed], but

turning off the printer when it was being installed/detected software-wise

would have.

 

Thanks for posting back with the resolution/results.

 

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