Clean your CD’s

I went out to Haines City yesterday to install a printer for someone as they could not get it working. It kept giving them an error message. I get there, and the first thing I see is a yellow exclamation on the printer in the Device Manager. This means that they plugged in the USB printer BEFORE they installed the software. I don’t care what the instructions say (which HP’s instructs always say plug in the printer first), you always put the software in first. However, this would not have helped anyway. I tried installing the printer several ways, but it would not go, came back with file errors. It seemed like the CD-ROM drive was bad… so I took the CD out, just to make sure there wasn’t any horrible scratches on it. As it turns out, there was a huge figerprint smudge (like food or something) on the CD. I cleaned the CD, tried again… went right through. So the moral of the story… make sure your CD’s are clean.

Jason

Father of four, amateur chicken farmer, tech enthusiast, primitive camper.

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