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    medion laptop screen fault

    thank you for your re quick reply so in your opinion it is a faulty screen and not the cable but could it be a bad connection on the motherboard and is there a graphics card david
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    medion laptop screen fault

    last night I took the screen out of my laptop to find the part number so that I can look for a replacement then an idea came into my mind if I connected a computer monitor to the vga port with the screen connected would I have the same fault or would it work it did work then I reconnected the...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    hi to all tonight I tried an experiment installed the hp h470 software and driver on to my medion laptop with vista os system installed when asked I pluged the h470 printer into the usb port the same thing happened the hardware wizard detected it and installed it as a removable disk drive after...
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    medion laptop screen fault

    my medion laptop when it boots up the display on the screen is in six what is wrong
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    the printer was bought off ebay and it did not come with a software disk I downloaded the software off the hp web site and the printer has worked with the rds software until recently I also installed a hp deskjet 720 seires printer which is in the rds.ini file and the same thing happened to this...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    what? documentation, for that specific piece of software, to see how to change the default printer. do you mean this type of documentation <<Edited by moderator to move content to spoiler for ease of reading the thread.>>
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    thank you for your help and reply my laptop is a dell latitude d600 with windows xp pro os system I don't know if it 32 bit or 64 bit first I installed the h470 software then when asked I plug the h470 printer into the usb port after the software has installed I go to start printers select...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    tried the above but it did not work so I googled how to disable hardware wizard and found this http://www.computertechblog.com/how-to-disable-the-found-new-hardware-wizard-in-windows-xp/ there was some instructions there as follows Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Server 2003 Add a DWORD named...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    I may have solved the problem I connected a usb 2.0 hub to the usb port on the laptop hardware wizard found that new hardware has been connected and installed then I connected the printer usb cable to the usb hub to see what would happen nothing did so hardware wizard did not detect it so now I...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    it is connected to my dell latitude d600 via a usb cable and the diagnostic equipment is a mg rover t4 testbook original made by hp for mg rover so the software is written to work with hp printers so I think that xp pro is the problem
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    yes it is definitely down to windows hardware wizard installing the printer as a removable disk drive how can I disable hardware wizard
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    I installed the h470 driver and software on to my Toshiba laptop and the same thing happened both laptops are running xp professional so I think that that xp professional is the problem so is there a difference between xp home and xp pro
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    the software is a automotive diagnostic software I tried another hp printer a hp deskjet f 2180 and installed as per instructions and this printer did not work either the software and driver for both printers were down loaded from the internet using my windows 7 home computer then I burned the...
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    windows xp installs my h470 officejet printer as a disk drive

    yes I can the problem is the software I want to use to print from the software when you select print a message comes on screen saying printing but the printer does not print there seams to be no signal going to the printer from the software