[aclug-L] Re: Sales and lack of stock and non-rain check! Was:Re: Re: If you had a Win98se Question what forum/blog would you go to?

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 01:15 -0800, DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
> System has 512mb [the motherboards max] installed.
> When trying to print the system resources say 65%
> 
> As I changed the printer settings to print directly to
> the printer and not to use the spooler _AND_ to not
> start printing till the full job had been spooled...
> the printer stopped printing at the same points in the
> print job??
> 

You are printing directly and not spooling?  That is often a problem
because the data transmission stops when the printer memory gets full
and there is nothing to  restart it.

> I have sent as many as ten single page jobs and all
> ten printed with out any trouble...
> 
> But the printer will not print even one two page job
> with out locking up!
> 
> I am starting to think that there is something wrong
> with the design of the printer... 
> 
> But if that was so I am sure that I would be reading
> all sorts of 'bad posting' in the printer forums.. as
> OfficeMax [and Staples] has had this printer on sale
> for the past three months and my wife was told she was
> the first person to exchange the printer to the 'North
> Rock' OfficeMax, and I talked to the manager at the
> 'East Kellogg' OfficeMax and he claims to not had a
> single one of the Brother printers returned, yet he
> claims to of had a number of "HP's & Lexmark's" return
> as non-working....
> 
> On another topic... sales and lack of stock and
> non-rain check!
> Newspaper did not get delivered to my house till 11am
> Sunday am.. Wife saw the "$199.00" CompUSA system. We
> check both the phone stock and online stock status and
> the item is listed as in stock.. so just to make sure
> before we drove I called the store directly and was
> told that the store was not connected to the stocking
> system and they only had five of the systems which
> were sold out when the store opened at 9am... But
> called back and spoke to a different clerk a few hours
> later and was told "...the manager would only allow us
> to sell five on sale but have 15 in stock...which is
> why the stock status is stating the item is in
> stock..." While the addvert says "Limited to stock on
> hand" is this leagl?? 
> 
> --David
> 
> 
> 
> --- ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > How much ram is on this computer and what is the
> > percentage of resources 
> > are free?  ~Anne
> > 
> > DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
> > 
> > >Done
> > >[X] "... Cleanup the temp directory (manually
> > delete
> > >all *.tmp files)..."
> > >
> > >[X] "...and run defrag again in safe mode..."
> > >
> > >[X] "...Have you tried using the parallel port
> > >instead?..." 
> > >     [Not an option USB only printer]   
> > >
> > >[?] "...Sounds like the print buffer is too full or
> > >win98se is unable to handle the very large size of
> > the
> > >print spool files that the brother printer is
> > >producing..." 
> > >     [Any way to adjust this in Win98se through a
> > >patch/hack? Send the spool to another drive?] 
> > >
> > >[!] "...Have you considered upgrading to win2k?..."
> > 
> > >     [Do not want to purchase new "OS" yet. And the
> > >XP-Home-"UPGRADE" co$t$ would rather spend toward
> > new
> > >system in the next two months] 
> > >
> > >[! The PCI->USB2.0 card can be used in other
> > systems
> > >in the house so it was not a total waste of $15 to
> > try
> > >it out.]
> > >
> > >
> > >--- ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Sounds like the print buffer is too full or
> > win98se
> > >>is unable to handle 
> > >>the very large size of the print spool files that
> > >>the brother printer is 
> > >>producing.  Cleanup the temp directory (manually
> > >>delete all *.tmp files) 
> > >>and run defrag again in safe mode.  Have you tried
> > >>using the parallel 
> > >>port instead?  Win98se doesn't handle usb well at
> > >>all and the usb is 
> > >>choking on the amount of data it is being fed. 
> > >>Win2k handles usb much 
> > >>better and is much more stable than win98se.  Have
> > >>you considered 
> > >>upgrading to win2k?  ~Anne
> > >>
> > >>DAVID CARMICHAEL wrote:
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They
> > know me here.
> > >
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