HP PSC 1317 fails

[mrapoc]

Hi guys

Trying to install the above printer it keeps throwing a windows error of "Cannot install hardware" "The specified environment is invalid".

Does this even after wiping all traces of HP off the computer. The cable works fine with a different printer also.

Basically you run the HP installer (both off the disk or latest driver off the net) and it gets to the part where it detects the printer/tells you to turn it on and windows detects it - then throws that error!

argh

does the same when you manually search for the driver file too - this is on xp x32.

i'm at a loss and probably gonna try a format/reinstall

 

[k4p84]

We have HP printers at work.

If you set one as your default printer MS Office programs.... Word,

Excel etc will crash randomly.

Default to a non HP one and its fine.

Have you tried letting Windows use sys default drivers and not those supplied by HP at all.

ED

 

[Rastalovich]

Biggest issue with these printers (from anywhere) is that people plug them in b4 installing drivers.

From that point windows bluffs some stuff, not just drivers, and from that point u can be screwed. Good luck from there on in. Hopefully u can try using another usb port when the software asks u, and it may work.

Uninstalling the drivers windows' uses doesn't always work. Need like a driver cleaning thingy for printers.

Vista has a good go at installing drivers for them when u don't use the cd first. Bit hit and miss tho.