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Install Printer Driver Without Win98SE System CD
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I bought an older HP "Laser Jet" 6L printer at a yard sale. This printer connects to the parallel port (no USB) and that is just fine since I am using a Windows 98 desktop computer. I downloaded the Windows 98 driver for this model printer. When I connected the printer, turned it on, then turned on the computer, Windows didn't give me an option to install the driver I downloaded. Instead, it "built a driver database" and requested the Windows 98SE system CD! Note: I didn't need the driver I downloaded. If I didn't have the Windows 98SE system CD, how does one "get around" this and install the driver from a different source? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. |
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Install Printer Driver Without Win98SE System CD
You did the sequence wrong drivers are installed in Win98(se) before the
hardware is connected so the right driver is waiting in the database 1. install driver 2 turn off computer 3 connect device 4 restart computer computer will then use the installed driver from its database and not ask for the cd -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://www.safer-networking.org AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Cool Web Shredder http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/ links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Brad" wrote in message ... Hi, I bought an older HP "Laser Jet" 6L printer at a yard sale. This printer connects to the parallel port (no USB) and that is just fine since I am using a Windows 98 desktop computer. I downloaded the Windows 98 driver for this model printer. When I connected the printer, turned it on, then turned on the computer, Windows didn't give me an option to install the driver I downloaded. Instead, it "built a driver database" and requested the Windows 98SE system CD! Note: I didn't need the driver I downloaded. If I didn't have the Windows 98SE system CD, how does one "get around" this and install the driver from a different source? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. |
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"Brad" wrote in message
... I bought an older HP "Laser Jet" 6L printer at a yard sale. This printer connects to the parallel port (no USB) and that is just fine since I am using a Windows 98 desktop computer. I downloaded the Windows 98 driver for this model printer. When I connected the printer, turned it on, then turned on the computer, Windows didn't give me an option to install the driver I downloaded. Instead, it "built a driver database" and requested the Windows 98SE system CD! Note: I didn't need the driver I downloaded. If I didn't have the Windows 98SE system CD, how does one "get around" this and install the driver from a different source? 1. Cancel/skip the above routine began at boot (when Win98 detects New Hardware.) 2 Start / Settings / Printers 3 Select ADD PRINTER and select maker's name and type number and when it asks for a disk or driver / Browse to wherever you stored the recommeded driver. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. |
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1. You may *still* need the Windows CD even if you install the HP drivers
properly. There may be sub-systems that have not been previously installed and which now need to be installed, and the only place to get those drivers and/or INF files is from the installation files. Really, you can't get along forever without those files. There's a very good chance that they are on your machine. Use Find to locate files named *.CAB. If you find a bunch or them in a single folder named WIN_xx.CAB, where xx is a number, them you have found your installation files and can point the installer to them. 2. When you run the download you got, it simply unpacks the drivers files to a folder named C:\lj692 (or lj622, depending on which package you downloaded). To be ready for installation, you should turn on printer first, then the computer. If the drivers installation dialogue comes up during startup, Cancel it. Then, after Windows has started, run Add Printer dialogue. After choosing whether local or network (if offered), there will come the "Building drivers information database...". Once that is finished, you get a list of printers and a button that says "Have disk...". You want to use that button and then navigate to the downloaded drivers folder (C:\lj692, eg.) 3. If Windows demands the installation CD before it can finish building the drivers database, and you can't get around that one, then you'll simply have to find your installation files. See 1, above. I don't know of any way around that one. It's not clear to me *why* the installation files would be needed at this point, and I'm guessing it has nothing to do specifically with your printer installation, but rather, it may simply be that while building the Driver Information Database, it came across some other reason for needing the installation files. I've been looking through the documentation and can't find an answer as to why that might happen. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "Brad" wrote in message ... Hi, I bought an older HP "Laser Jet" 6L printer at a yard sale. This printer connects to the parallel port (no USB) and that is just fine since I am using a Windows 98 desktop computer. I downloaded the Windows 98 driver for this model printer. When I connected the printer, turned it on, then turned on the computer, Windows didn't give me an option to install the driver I downloaded. Instead, it "built a driver database" and requested the Windows 98SE system CD! Note: I didn't need the driver I downloaded. If I didn't have the Windows 98SE system CD, how does one "get around" this and install the driver from a different source? Thanks in advance, Brad Before you type your password, credit card number, etc., be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC. |
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