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Epson Printer Port
Now that I have installed my 7600, at first intermittently and now
constantly, when I boot the computer I get an Epson Printer Port error message saying that "At least one service or driver failed during system startup. Use event viewer to examine the event log for details". I had the same problem when I had a 2200 (though that was connected by Firewire and now I am USB...on a Windows XP Platform). Ultimately nothing helped until I just uninstalled the Epson Printer Port and the printer seemed to work OK. Can the Epson Printer Port be uninstalled on the 7600 without problems and still have the 7600 work properly? If I don't uninstall and just clickOK to the error message will things still be working properly? Will uninstalling the Epson Printer Port cause a problem when trying to use a 3rd party RIP like ImagePrint? Thanks. Howard |
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I have found the solution to my Epson Printer Port problem and am
posting it in case anyone else ever has a similar problem…at least it will be in the archives, though as you will see it turned out to be a fairly esoteric problem. I noticed that the problem that I had posted about the Epson Printer Port error message several posts back occurred about 95% of the time…but not every time I booted up. I also noticed that the programs that were in my system tray would start up in variable order and thought that perhaps one of these system tray or other ‘background' programs were somehow conflicting with the Epson Printer Port at startup but that every so often they would start in an order whereby the Epson Printer Port was somehow OK. So I ran msconfig and basically inhibited all the background ‘stuff' from starting at boot and I stopped getting the error message. Then, one by one, I added each background program to startup and rebooted until I found the one startup program that was causing me to get the error message. It was called ‘SBDrvDet'. I then went to a reference I had downloaded from the internet that tells the purpose of every known startup program that runs in the background. Turns out that SBDrvDet is "Detects the ‘Easy Front Panel' Audio Connectivity Drive Internal Drive Bay on the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum ex." Can be disabled if you don't have one was the advice given in the reference." Well, I don't have one, but I do have an Audigy sound card. I disabled the SBDrvDet from loading at startup in msconfig and the problem is now gone and I still have sound…though I guess I will never be buying the Easy Front Panel :). So now it is in the archives as a reference in case anyone else has the same problem. Howard |
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