printer problems

[Gene C]

I picked up two lexmark Z-65 color printers for the wife & I. I have a problem with them. I followed the info supplied by or on the doc's and cd-rom on installing them.

I have let the o/s find them on start-up and have also installed them manualy. same thing happens either way??

the problem is that my system will hang at start-up. dead hang that is. and I have to do a crt-alt-del and kill a process named lexpps. to get the systems to boot past the starting of the system boot up.

[speedman]

I hope this comes out readable................;)

Maybe this will be better.

http://home.attbi.com/~cconasax/wsb/media/46437/site1034.jpg

[speedman]

Or here!


Can't get the damn link to work.........ARggghhhhh

[Gene C]

thanks for takeing the time to help me speedman and I got your mail with the link. went to it and sent you back a mail on it. that deals with a different problem.

p.s. is that a pic of mntsnow hitting that tree by your username. he he

[Gene C]

update, first my apologies for breacking my first rule of posting. not listing needed info.

this is a system that is used for graphics. o/s upgrade is not a OPTION for all my video equip won't support drivers for the new ones.

mobo abit bx6 rev 2.0 bios flashed
p3-450 cpu
256 ram
250 watt p/s

usb is 1.1 ver and not upgradeable/ even tho the printed & my usb readers are backward compataible.

this only happens after I use my printer and reboot.
lexpps is the problem. killing it brings up a msgsrv 32 not responding. killing the msgsrv will than bring up the kill screen for the lexpps. killing it and all works ok.

I have also killed anything that loads up at start-up, taken out my firewall ect.

I'm lost on this one

[speedman]

Does the system put a little icon of your printer in the systray after everything is loaded? If so try disabling it and see if that helps.