Why does your printer only work with one of your USB ports?
(Just kidding. Sorry I can't help. But you are logged on, right?)
This seems like a typical problem. I’ve had the same sort of problem.
Hey. If you find a port where your printer works - then use it.
Problem solved.
I have a busted USB port on laptop. Will anything else work on that port?
And why do they call them APARTments? ... when they are all stuck together?
Simple...That port in a conservative port...always working, doing it’s job 24/7....the other 2 well you can guess :)
Is the fourth port the one on the left or the one on the right? If it is the one on the right, it means that you have purchased a hard-core Republican HP printer. If it is the one on the left, it is a yellow-dog Democrat HP printer. That’s all.
Dig the dirt daubers out of the others and get back to me.
(Sorry, it’s Friday)
Those were the days.
When you installed the printer drivers in the beginning you had the printer plugged in to the port that now works. If you open the PRINTERS icon in Control Panel, and then access PROPERTIES for the printer, then click on PORTS you will see the specific USB address in the list of ports.
If you must use another port then uninstall the printer driver, plug the printer in to another USB port, then reinstall the printer drivers.
The key is knowing what USB stands for: Uniform Senile B@stard. It just so happens that the one USB port that *does* work hasn’t forgotten yet how to talk to the printer. That too shall pass.
Gremlins living inside your computer are tearing up the USB connections. You’ll need a licensed gremlin remover. My suggestion is to put plastic tarp under the area he will be working in to catch all the blood.
Like this.
I think OldMissileer is correct, this could be the reason. But anyway you slice this, this is a poorly written driver because the driver should be ‘smart’ enough to know that USB devices can come and go without warning. That’s why there is a USB ‘cakewalk’ or discovery phase every 10-50 ms.
It could also be that the POORLY WRITTEN driver is demanding to be connected directly to a USB Hub, and that the one USB connector you have is tied to the USB Hub, and the other 3 USB connectors are located heirarchically beneath the 1 working USB Hub.
Typically, you will have 2 USB Hubs on a South Bridge (IOC) on your motherboard, and having one USB device go directly to the HUB, and then having 3 USB connectors ganged together on the secondary HUB is not uncommon.
The rationale is that for high data rate devices, the direct HUB connection will have slightly less latency - which is desireable for video editing that utilized USB 2.0 instead of Firewire.
Do any of the other ports work with any other USB devices? If not, then the ports are bad. If they do, then it probably has something to do with the printer setup. Check your printer properties and see what port it is using. That might give you a clue.
Try plugging a powered USB hub into that port, and the printer into the hub.
He kisses her spins her around and says " Honey. any port in a storm!"
Hand salute! Yadda Yadda!
So much for Control Panel Pundits!
That’s easy..
It’s DELL!!
That’s easy..
It’s A DELL!!