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- OSPRINT2 - PRINTING ERROR MESSAGES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
- 11/02/94
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- PRINTING ERROR MESSAGES, PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
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- Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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- This document addresses the following error messages:
-
- PRINTER OUT OF PAPER
- PRINTER OFF LINE
- SYS004
-
- These messages are usually generated by:
- Not using the latest level printer driver
- Incompatible Hardware (such as I/O card)
- IRQ conflict
- Printer cable
- Corrupted INI files
-
-
- 1. Have you called vendor of your printer to be sure you have
- the latest driver available for OS/2? If not, contact
- vendor of your printer.
-
- 2. Most common incompatible hardware is an I/O card. Please
- check to see if connected properly. If it is an older version
- I/O card, it may not be compatible and needs to be replaced.
-
- 3. You may have an IRQ conflict. If you have a Sound Card this
- is the first IRQ to check. The OS/2 documentation lists the
- defaults for the IRQ levels. Both LPT1 and the Sound Cards,
- by defaults, use the same IRQ. OS/2 does not share IRQ
- levels. All devices should have their own IRQ level. For the
- Sound Card, it is suggested you change to IRQ 10 because it is
- open.
-
- 4. Printer cable should be no longer than six feet. It should
- be IBM approved. All 25 pins must be connected. If your
- printer works in DOS and not in OS/2, this could be the
- problem, especially on higher processor systems. DOS only
- requires 9 pins be connected, but OS/2 requires all 25
- pins be connected.
-
- 5. You may have corrupted INI files. System initialization files
- (INI) have been damaged and need to be rebuilt. Corruption
- can be caused by:
-
- - improper system shutdown
- - power surges
- - hardware problems
- - improper INI updates by applications or OS/2
-
- The two files involved are the OS2.INI and the OS2SYS.INI
- located in the \OS2 directory on your boot partition. Print
- object settings are stored in the OS2SYS.INI file. When a
- problem exists with the way these settings are stored you
- could run into:
-
- - incorrect printer settings info
- - multiple drivers selected in Printer Driver Tab
- - multiple ports selected in the Output Tab
- - can no longer print after previous printing
- - invalid object under the Set Default listing
-
- NOTE: If you backed up your INI files immediately before
- the problem occurred and you have not changed your
- configuration since then, you can replace the current
- files with the backup set:
-
- 1. Start with the OS/2 Installation diskette.
- 2. When prompted, remove Installation Diskette and insert
- Diskette 1.
- 3. Press Enter.
- 4. When the Welcome Screen appears, press Esc to display
- the A: prompt.
- 5. Replace BOTH the OS2.INI and the OS2SYS.INI at the
- same time. If you experience problems when starting
- up, you should MAKEINI using the following
- instructions.
-
-
- IMPORTANT: If you have one of the following video cards or
- chip set, you MUST go back to VGA mode before you continue.
- IBM
- Valuepoint
- ATI
- S-3 chip set
-
- RETURNING TO VGA
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- Use following procedure instead of SETVGA command if it is
- necessary to return to VGA mode. Do the steps after
- starting OS/2 from Installation Disk and escaping to the
- command prompt.
-
- NOTE: X: is startup drive where OS/2 resides
-
- Case 1: You installed OS/2 from diskettes
-
- A: If RSPDSPI.EXE is in the \OS\INSTALL\ directory type and
- press Enter after each one:
-
- X:
- CD X:\OS2\INSTALL
- RSPDSPI /PK:VGA /SK:NONE /S:A:\ /T:X:
- where: A: is diskette drive you used to install OS/2
-
-
- B: If RSPDSPI.EXE is NOT in the \OS2\INSTALL\ directory:
-
- 1.Insert Installation diskette 8 and unpack
- RSPDSPI.EXE with following command and press Enter:
-
- X:\OS2\UNPACK A:\INSTAID X: /N:RSPDSPI.EXE
- where: A: is drive containing diskette 8
-
- 2. Type following commands and press Enter after each one:
-
- X:
- CD X:\OS2\INSTALL
- RSPDSPI /PK:VGA /SK:NONE /S:A:\ /T:X:
- where: A: is diskette drive you used to install OS/2
-
-
- Case 2: You installed OS/2 from CD-ROM or a LAN
-
- A: If RSPDSPI.EXE is in the \OS\INSTALL\ directory type and
- press Enter after each one:
-
- X:
- CD X:\OS2\INSTALL
- RSPDSPI /PK:VGA /SK:NONE /S:E:\OS2SE21\ /T:X:
- where: E: is CD-ROM or LAN drive
-
-
- B: If RSPDSPI.EXE is NOT in \OS2\INSTALL\ directory.
-
- 1.Unpack RSPDSPI.EXE with the following command
- and press Enter:
-
- X:\OS2\UNPACK E:\DISK_8\INSTAID X:/N:RSPDSPI.EXE
- where E: is the CD-ROM or LAN drive
-
- 2. Type the following command and press Enter:
-
- X:
- CD X:\OS2\INSTALL
- RSPDSPI /PK:VGA /SK:NONE /S:E:\OS2SE21\ /T:X:
- where: E: is CD-ROM or LAN drive
-
-
- MAKING/RENAMING SYSTEM INI FILES:
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- CHKDSK should be run to ensure that there are no file problems
- before proceeding with MAKEINI.
-
- Running CHKDSK for 2.X, WARP:
-
- 1. Perform SHUTDOWN, if you're unable to SHUTDOWN, turn off
- system for 30 seconds.
-
- 2. Insert the Installation Diskette in drive A:
-
- 3. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart system if you SHUTDOWN.
- Turn the computer on if your turned it off.
-
- 4. When prompted, remove Installation Diskette and insert
- Diskette 1.
-
- 5. Press Enter.
-
- 6. When the Welcome Screen appears:
- - For OS/2 WARP, press F3 to display the command prompt.
- - For OS/2 2.X, press Esc, to display the command prompt.
-
- 7. Remove Diskette 1 and insert Diskette 2, which contains
- the CHKDSK command.
-
- If you installed from CD:
- NOTE: X: is the CD-ROM drive
-
- - For OS/2 WARP:
- A. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and press Enter.
- B. Type X: Where X: is the CD-ROM drive and press Enter.
- C. Type OS2IMAGE and press Enter.
- D. Type CD DISK_2 and press Enter.
-
- - For OS/2 2.X, the command prompt stops at CD drive in
- DISK_1 subdirectory, change to DISK_2 subdir, type:
-
- X:\OS2SE21\DISK_2 and press Enter
-
- 8. To correct errors on hard disk, type appropriate CHKDSK
- command followed by the drive on which OS/2 resides.
-
- X: denotes drive where OS/2 resides...C:, D:, etc.
-
- For FAT file system, type: CHKDSK X: /F
- For HPFS file system, type: CHKDSK X: /F:2
-
- 9. Press Enter to start the CHKDSK command.
-
- NOTE: If you have any errors, run the CHKDSK command
- repeatedly until all errors are cleared up.
-
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- To MAKEINI:
-
- 10. Change to the drive containing OS/2. Then switch to the
- OS/2 sub-directory
- Example: X: CD OS2
- X: is drive where OS/2 resides
-
- 11. At the command line type:
- REN OS2.INI OS2.BAK and press Enter
- REN OS2SYS.INI OS2SYS.BAK and press Enter.
-
- 12. At the command line type:
- MAKEINI OS2.INI INI.RC and press Enter
- MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC and press Enter
-
- If you are unable to access INI files, type:
- ATTRIB OS2*.INI -R
-
- Then retry to MAKEINI.
- 13. At the command line use the ATTRIB command to delete the
- hidden file WP ROOT.SF in the OS2 startable partition.
- Type and press Enter after each one:
-
- ATTRIB X:\WP?ROOT.?SF -s -r -h
- DEL X:\WP?ROOT.?SF
-
- 14. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the system. This
- rebuilds the desktop by replacing the corrupt .INI
- files with new .INI files.
- 15. It is highly recommended to do an immediate SHUTDOWN after
- the system is installed to ensure that all programs and
- files have been associated correctly.
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