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I have a curious error that I've been unable to get solved.
I have a system that was sharing a Brother HL-5140 printer connected to another machine on the network, all was well. I have moved the machine into the position of the primary machine, and now the printer is directly connected to it on the LPT1 parallel port. I changed the port assignment and got the printer working, even shared it with other machines with no issue. However, now the printer is detected as new hardware every boot, but it always finishes with an error. The environment is XP-Pro SP2, all service patches applied. The error dialog that I get:
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An error occurred during the installation of the device.
The specified port is unknown.
Click Finish to close the wizard.
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I've uninstalled the printer and re-installed, and even went so far as to uninstall, scrub everything I could find in the registry for the Brother printer, and re-install the printer.
The printer still works fine, but I can't get rid of the stinkin' startup error!
Does anyone have an insight how to convince XP that the printer doesn't need installation? I am guessing it is getting confused about the exact characteristics of the parallel port it's connected to. Is there perhaps a way to disable PnP detection on just the parallel port?
Any insights would be appreciated.
I have a system that was sharing a Brother HL-5140 printer connected to another machine on the network, all was well. I have moved the machine into the position of the primary machine, and now the printer is directly connected to it on the LPT1 parallel port. I changed the port assignment and got the printer working, even shared it with other machines with no issue. However, now the printer is detected as new hardware every boot, but it always finishes with an error. The environment is XP-Pro SP2, all service patches applied. The error dialog that I get:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
An error occurred during the installation of the device.
The specified port is unknown.
Click Finish to close the wizard.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
I've uninstalled the printer and re-installed, and even went so far as to uninstall, scrub everything I could find in the registry for the Brother printer, and re-install the printer.
The printer still works fine, but I can't get rid of the stinkin' startup error!
Does anyone have an insight how to convince XP that the printer doesn't need installation? I am guessing it is getting confused about the exact characteristics of the parallel port it's connected to. Is there perhaps a way to disable PnP detection on just the parallel port?
Any insights would be appreciated.