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Old May 1st 05, 04:37 AM
Larry
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Default Number of copies in print queue increases "automatically"

This just started happening last week. When I send one document to the
printer, to print one copy, initially it shows 1 copy of 1 page. But as
the document prints, the number of copies indicated keeps increasing.
Have seen it go as high as 56 copies, before cancelling the job. It will
print continuously unless I cancel the job.

Sending the document direct rather than spooling, seems to result in 1
document.

The printer is fairly new (HP PSC-1315v). I did try removing, and
installing the latest HP driver, but it made no difference.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry
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Old May 1st 05, 02:43 PM
PattyL
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I would first try clean booting using the Msconfig utility to see if
something loading at Startup is causing the problem. See this article:

How to Troubleshoot Using the Msconfig Utility with Windows 98
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281965

PattyL


"Larry" wrote in message
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This just started happening last week. When I send one document to the
printer, to print one copy, initially it shows 1 copy of 1 page. But as
the document prints, the number of copies indicated keeps increasing. Have
seen it go as high as 56 copies, before cancelling the job. It will print
continuously unless I cancel the job.

Sending the document direct rather than spooling, seems to result in 1
document.

The printer is fairly new (HP PSC-1315v). I did try removing, and
installing the latest HP driver, but it made no difference.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry



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Old May 3rd 05, 03:46 AM
Larry
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PattyL,

Thanks for the reply. This problem is taking off in a slightly different
direction. I was using msconfig to remove some of the startup items and
then restarted, which resulted in a BSOD. Fatal Exception
OE@0028:C027EA63 in Vxd VMM(06) + 00003A63. Looking that up seems to
indicate registry corruption. Same BSOD when I tried again to restart.
So went to Safe Mode and undid the msconfig changes. It came up ok then.

At any rate, it reminded me, the secretary did say that it BSOD'd one
day last week on bootup, with the same Fatal Exception OE. She rebooted
and it came up with corrupted registry message, it offered to load an
earlier copy, and so then it came up ok. Maybe we have a memory problem?
Think I'll run a memory test...any other ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Larry

PattyL wrote:
I would first try clean booting using the Msconfig utility to see if
something loading at Startup is causing the problem. See this article:

How to Troubleshoot Using the Msconfig Utility with Windows 98
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281965

PattyL


"Larry" wrote in message
...

This just started happening last week. When I send one document to the
printer, to print one copy, initially it shows 1 copy of 1 page. But as
the document prints, the number of copies indicated keeps increasing. Have
seen it go as high as 56 copies, before cancelling the job. It will print
continuously unless I cancel the job.

Sending the document direct rather than spooling, seems to result in 1
document.

The printer is fairly new (HP PSC-1315v). I did try removing, and
installing the latest HP driver, but it made no difference.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry




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Old May 6th 05, 03:04 AM
PattyL
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I'd be very curious to know which item that you removed caused the BSOD.
You might try configuring items loading at startup by opening the
application, then finding options or preferences and then look for a way to
disable loading at startup.

PattyL

"Larry" wrote in message
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PattyL,

Thanks for the reply. This problem is taking off in a slightly different
direction. I was using msconfig to remove some of the startup items and
then restarted, which resulted in a BSOD. Fatal Exception OE@0028:C027EA63
in Vxd VMM(06) + 00003A63. Looking that up seems to indicate registry
corruption. Same BSOD when I tried again to restart. So went to Safe Mode
and undid the msconfig changes. It came up ok then.

At any rate, it reminded me, the secretary did say that it BSOD'd one day
last week on bootup, with the same Fatal Exception OE. She rebooted and it
came up with corrupted registry message, it offered to load an earlier
copy, and so then it came up ok. Maybe we have a memory problem? Think
I'll run a memory test...any other ideas are welcome!

Thanks,
Larry

PattyL wrote:
I would first try clean booting using the Msconfig utility to see if
something loading at Startup is causing the problem. See this article:

How to Troubleshoot Using the Msconfig Utility with Windows 98
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281965

PattyL


"Larry" wrote in message
...

This just started happening last week. When I send one document to the
printer, to print one copy, initially it shows 1 copy of 1 page. But as
the document prints, the number of copies indicated keeps increasing.
Have seen it go as high as 56 copies, before cancelling the job. It will
print continuously unless I cancel the job.

Sending the document direct rather than spooling, seems to result in 1
document.

The printer is fairly new (HP PSC-1315v). I did try removing, and
installing the latest HP driver, but it made no difference.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Larry




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Old May 8th 05, 07:52 PM
Larry
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I don't recall exactly which startup items, I removed about half of
them. I'm still suspicious of a memory problem. IIRC, we had not altered
anything just prior to the problem's occurrence. It's behind a hardware
firewall, has AVG antivirus running, and checked by SpybotS&D and
Adaware on a regular basis.

Cleaning/reseating and testing the memory module will be my next move,
then back to msconfig.

Larry

PattyL wrote:
I'd be very curious to know which item that you removed caused the BSOD.
You might try configuring items loading at startup by opening the
application, then finding options or preferences and then look for a way to
disable loading at startup.

PattyL

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Old May 10th 05, 06:13 AM
Larry
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Re-seated memory, ran DocMem (short test) and it tested good. Also ran
scandisk and let it do a surface scan on the "used" portion of the h.d.
No problems found. Then ran scanreg /fix. Started Windows, went to
msconfig, and unchecked all options. (Not to load Autoexec.bat,
config.sys, system.ini, win.ini, and startup items). Re-started Windows,
and as it came up, it reported registry corruption, and loaded a prior
registry copy. When it again re-started, msconfig had the startup items
checked. Next thing, I guess I'll try one startup item at a time.

BTW, it's clean of viruses, worms, trojans, etc. according to AVG v.7,
Spybot S&D 1.3, AdAware SE, and Stinger.

Larry
 




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