#Printer Won't Initialize
After replacing both of my 8520 chips I now find myself faced with another
strange problem. The chips were replaced due to a system clock which lost
30 minutes for every hour it was turned on. I replaced both in the end
since I wanted to make sure both chips were in good shape.
Now when I want to use the printers, they are on a DB-25 switchbox, I can
get them to work only once! Usually using the utility InitPrinter in the
system drawer I will get the printer to respond once. Every time I issue
the command after that I will get the printer failure requester! I can go
to preferences and set my printer to the other type I own and go to
InitPrinter and it will go through ONE time, every time I send it after
that I get the printer failure requester! I'm really getting lost here.
Maybe I've got a real bad motherboard, it sure acts weird.
This is a 3 month old machine which has already had the motherboard
replaced. I have a Rev 6.2B motherboard now and when it was first installed
the printers didn't work at all. An 8520 was replaced and they began
working fine. They worked fine right up to the point when the 8520's were
replaced with new ones.
I'm getting awful tired of this and frustrated. Any help or advice would
be greatly appreciated. If someone knows which chips feed the printer data
into the 8520's I'd appreciate that info also. I may be able to track it
down but my schematics match the old Rev. 4.3 motherboards. Thanks.
Keith