system getting owned by a deskjet 540

[Schadenfroh]

windows xp sp2, athlon xp 2500 @ 3200, 1 gig corsair xms pc3200, WD 10,000 RPM Raptor. WHenever i print something, my computer screaches to a halt and is so slow i cant do anything. I am using the drivers that came with windows, i do a three finger solute and it shows that "system" is taking 99% of my cpu cycles, this is system not idle system process (im not a foolio). any ideas on how i can fix this?

 

[InlineFive]

Have you tried installing the correct drivers? (Presuming that you already did spyware and antivirus...)

-pOr

 

[newbiepcuser]

Have you updated all the motherboard drivers? Is it a VIA or nForce board, maybe an update is in order? You could try the motherboard's parallel port settings in the BIOs, such as ECP/EPP, Bi-directional. You could try different settings and see if you get better results. I had one printer that refuse to act "normal" under ECP/EPP and switch it to bi-directional. It worked fine after that.


Did this always happen or after you installed sp2?

 

[lucky9]

Gotta be a driver problem. Remove and reinstall. Just remove it in device manager and reboot. Should set it up correctly.

 

[Unforgiven]

if the printer is usb it could be that its running on usb 1.0 and not usb 2.0 and thus causing the bottleneck. like was mentioned earlier service pack 2 is beta so it wouldnt be a shock if that was your issue at all.

 

[mastertech01]

Does it have parallel support? Maybe try using it via parallel port would be less resource restrictive.

 

[Schadenfroh]

running latest drivers and bios for all of my hardware, and come on guys, i have no spyware or viruses on my system, just read my sig. its a parallel printer, cant put USB in it cause it has no port, heck it just has one place for an ink cartridge and i have to swap it out if i want colour

 

[vietofmars]

Has it always been this way?

 

[Schadenfroh]

since my last format