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SMART Feature
After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned
on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on???
Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Yes......this is verbatim.... SAMSUNG SV4084H [Hard drive] (40.82 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 0274J1FR126521, rev PM100-17, SMART Status: Healthy Looks to me like it is still considered on. Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. I will try......but not familiar with the BIOS stuff. I have lost one of the black and white screens that used to come on at bootup showing a ream of stuff including where it was booting from at the bottom. Still have 3 major things on here from the XP install that have not been accessed and wondering if I should remove them, but that is a different topic. Cheers..Heather -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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OK....went into the BIOS, found the SMART switch disabled, so enabled it.
Is that what you wanted me to do?? Then the damned printer icon in the lower right came up double.....so I checked in Startup and two slightly different EPSON things were ticked off.....took out both ticks and now they are still there but unticked. Heather "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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Hmmm - interesting, as both Everest and Belarc had earlier reported SMART
healthy - did you do a BIOS reset recently??? (and Belarc seems still to be reporting the same!) I can think of no good reason for the duplication of the printer icons (after all, it's not a Lexmark ptui we're talking about g), unless it's somehow managed to pick up two driver sets..... although Epsons do have some strange quirks (and I avoid them as a rule, although they are actually pretty good printers) what are the filenames for the two entries?? - it's possible that for some reason the Status Monitor icon has gotten confused with the Activity (or whatever it's called) icon, so you're actually seeing the wrong Icon, rather than the wrong program What driver version is installed - according to the Printer Properties? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... OK....went into the BIOS, found the SMART switch disabled, so enabled it. Is that what you wanted me to do?? Then the damned printer icon in the lower right came up double.....so I checked in Startup and two slightly different EPSON things were ticked off.....took out both ticks and now they are still there but unticked. Heather "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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Hi Noel.......see inline.
"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hmmm - interesting, as both Everest and Belarc had earlier reported SMART healthy - did you do a BIOS reset recently??? (and Belarc seems still to be reporting the same!) NO....unless I did something when I was trying to get XP to work properly.....I know I was in the BIOS then. Just looking, I thought........but I think I altered something to do with *optimum performance* or along that line. what are the filenames for the two entries?? - it's possible that for some reason the Status Monitor icon has gotten confused with the Activity (or whatever it's called) icon, so you're actually seeing the wrong Icon, rather than the wrong program Both icons were the same, FWIW.....and now I see that there is nothing in the Start/Programs List in order to activate the printer.....nor is there an desktop icon. So guess I will have to put one back. When I did a CAD, there was "e_s412H1" or some such running in the background.....but not sure which of the two it belonged to. Have had some problems with this printer with dual CAD entries and also removed the Arc Software for fixing pictures coz it just would NOT work. Errors all the time. The 2 entries are relatively the same...... Both named *EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series* One is loaded from "Registry (Per-User Run) and the other from "Registry (Machine Run) First one has the following Command description...... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /M "Stylus Photo R200" /EF "HKCU" 2nd one (Machine Run one) is..... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /05 "LPT1:" /M "Stylus Photo R200" What driver version is installed - according to the Printer Properties? Where will I get that? Can't find a way to open the printer up at the moment....hang on. OK......think I have got it. Did a Search and found this in Windows\INF\Other...... DriverVer-09/17/2003, 6.50.00.00 As I think I said above, I will have to put one of those back and not sure which one. Dam thing!! I like my old Canon 240B inkjet better. I bought the printer at Xmas and have only printed off two things. It also does CD labels......whoopee!! Cheers......"Murphy" -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... OK....went into the BIOS, found the SMART switch disabled, so enabled it. Is that what you wanted me to do?? Then the damned printer icon in the lower right came up double.....so I checked in Startup and two slightly different EPSON things were ticked off.....took out both ticks and now they are still there but unticked. Heather "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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Noel.......
The following is the update page for drivers, but it is darned confusing which ones to put on first......and I don't want any that are not just plain old printer drivers, coz I took the picture software (Arcsoft) off of this machine. My patience just went out the window!! I found my HP Scanner to be rather tetchy and confusing for a while at first as well. Can't they do these things for *blondes*??? http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/s...atform=Windows "Heather" wrote in message ... Hi Noel.......see inline. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hmmm - interesting, as both Everest and Belarc had earlier reported SMART healthy - did you do a BIOS reset recently??? (and Belarc seems still to be reporting the same!) NO....unless I did something when I was trying to get XP to work properly.....I know I was in the BIOS then. Just looking, I thought........but I think I altered something to do with *optimum performance* or along that line. what are the filenames for the two entries?? - it's possible that for some reason the Status Monitor icon has gotten confused with the Activity (or whatever it's called) icon, so you're actually seeing the wrong Icon, rather than the wrong program Both icons were the same, FWIW.....and now I see that there is nothing in the Start/Programs List in order to activate the printer.....nor is there an desktop icon. So guess I will have to put one back. When I did a CAD, there was "e_s412H1" or some such running in the background.....but not sure which of the two it belonged to. Have had some problems with this printer with dual CAD entries and also removed the Arc Software for fixing pictures coz it just would NOT work. Errors all the time. The 2 entries are relatively the same...... Both named *EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series* One is loaded from "Registry (Per-User Run) and the other from "Registry (Machine Run) First one has the following Command description...... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /M "Stylus Photo R200" /EF "HKCU" 2nd one (Machine Run one) is..... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /05 "LPT1:" /M "Stylus Photo R200" What driver version is installed - according to the Printer Properties? Where will I get that? Can't find a way to open the printer up at the moment....hang on. OK......think I have got it. Did a Search and found this in Windows\INF\Other...... DriverVer-09/17/2003, 6.50.00.00 As I think I said above, I will have to put one of those back and not sure which one. Dam thing!! I like my old Canon 240B inkjet better. I bought the printer at Xmas and have only printed off two things. It also does CD labels......whoopee!! Cheers......"Murphy" -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... OK....went into the BIOS, found the SMART switch disabled, so enabled it. Is that what you wanted me to do?? Then the damned printer icon in the lower right came up double.....so I checked in Startup and two slightly different EPSON things were ticked off.....took out both ticks and now they are still there but unticked. Heather "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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OK - first things first.
re-enable BOTH entries in MSCONFIG - they are correct (one runs the printer as a Service - the other runs the printer for you.) If you hover the cursor over the icons - what are they described as?? Here's the direct link for the driver you need (It may well break - so be prepared for some copy/pasting!!) link http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/s...censeoid=17774 /link Once you've downloaded it, uninstall your current Epson software from Add/Remove, and shut down. Unplug the printer - then boot to Normal Mode, and check that there are no entries for the printer in either Device Manager or Settings|Printers. Reboot to Safe Mode - and check in DM there that there's no reference to Epson Printers remaining. Then you can reboot to Normal Mode, install the drivers, and only then attach the printer. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... Noel....... The following is the update page for drivers, but it is darned confusing which ones to put on first......and I don't want any that are not just plain old printer drivers, coz I took the picture software (Arcsoft) off of this machine. My patience just went out the window!! I found my HP Scanner to be rather tetchy and confusing for a while at first as well. Can't they do these things for *blondes*??? http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/s...atform=Windows "Heather" wrote in message ... Hi Noel.......see inline. "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... Hmmm - interesting, as both Everest and Belarc had earlier reported SMART healthy - did you do a BIOS reset recently??? (and Belarc seems still to be reporting the same!) NO....unless I did something when I was trying to get XP to work properly.....I know I was in the BIOS then. Just looking, I thought........but I think I altered something to do with *optimum performance* or along that line. what are the filenames for the two entries?? - it's possible that for some reason the Status Monitor icon has gotten confused with the Activity (or whatever it's called) icon, so you're actually seeing the wrong Icon, rather than the wrong program Both icons were the same, FWIW.....and now I see that there is nothing in the Start/Programs List in order to activate the printer.....nor is there an desktop icon. So guess I will have to put one back. When I did a CAD, there was "e_s412H1" or some such running in the background.....but not sure which of the two it belonged to. Have had some problems with this printer with dual CAD entries and also removed the Arc Software for fixing pictures coz it just would NOT work. Errors all the time. The 2 entries are relatively the same...... Both named *EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series* One is loaded from "Registry (Per-User Run) and the other from "Registry (Machine Run) First one has the following Command description...... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /M "Stylus Photo R200" /EF "HKCU" 2nd one (Machine Run one) is..... C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\E_S412H1.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R200 Series" /05 "LPT1:" /M "Stylus Photo R200" What driver version is installed - according to the Printer Properties? Where will I get that? Can't find a way to open the printer up at the moment....hang on. OK......think I have got it. Did a Search and found this in Windows\INF\Other...... DriverVer-09/17/2003, 6.50.00.00 As I think I said above, I will have to put one of those back and not sure which one. Dam thing!! I like my old Canon 240B inkjet better. I bought the printer at Xmas and have only printed off two things. It also does CD labels......whoopee!! Cheers......"Murphy" -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... OK....went into the BIOS, found the SMART switch disabled, so enabled it. Is that what you wanted me to do?? Then the damned printer icon in the lower right came up double.....so I checked in Startup and two slightly different EPSON things were ticked off.....took out both ticks and now they are still there but unticked. Heather "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... First - is Belarc still saying it's switched on??? Go into the BIOS, and look there for the SMART switch - it's likely to be on the first screen option. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm In fond memory of one of life's Gentlemen - Alex Nichol http://www.aumha.org/alex.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Heather" wrote in message ... After the fiasco with XP, Noel asked if the SMART feature was still turned on in the BIOS........I ran the Belarc Advisor and it said it was...... However.....today I *paused* the screen at bootup and it said it was capable of this, but NOT enabled. I don't know if it ever was, to be honest. But if I want to enable it, how do I go about it?? Help was of no assistance. Cheers....Heather |
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Heather wrote:
Noel....... Snipped My patience just went out the window!! I found my HP Scanner to be rather tetchy and confusing for a while at first as well. Can't they do these things for *blondes*??? Oh, Oh!! I hope you didn't open that big can of worms called "The blonde world". I will have to keep lurking here because among others, there must be a reply in the offing from Heirloom among others. I always enjoy the humorous exchanges between the "friendly adversaries" that live in this group. BTW Heather, I may skip my XP-Home upgrade until I hear you are running as smooth as a cats purr. Rots a ruck. ;-) sced13ri Snipped |
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lol You may be waiting a long time g didn't you know Murphy's Law
was written for Heather g Joan looneytunesverizone.net wrote: Oh, Oh!! I hope you didn't open that big can of worms called "The blonde world". I will have to keep lurking here because among others, there must be a reply in the offing from Heirloom among others. I always enjoy the humorous exchanges between the "friendly adversaries" that live in this group. BTW Heather, I may skip my XP-Home upgrade until I hear you are running as smooth as a cats purr. Rots a ruck. ;-) sced13ri Snipped |
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