CPU goes to 100% while printing

p4radox

p4radox

p4radox

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Whenever I print anything, even a pure text document with no pictures my compter slows down and CPU usage shoots up to 100% and stays there while printing. The printer is an HP Deskjet 990cxi and has the latest drivers installed. Anyone have any ideas?

My specs are:
Biostar TForce 939
Opteron [email protected]
1Gb Crucial
200Gb Samsung (2 partitions - dunno if this is anything to with it)
X850XT
 
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Has it always done this? I'd suspect it is due to a lack of memory and processing power on the printer more than any real failing of your system. Have you tried any other printers?
 
I think it probably has always done this actually. Does this mean that if I turn off the system during printing a large-ish file it will stop printing? I might try it actually...

I have another printer - but it's a shared printer on another PC over my wireless LAN, although it is a much newer printer. I'll give that a try in a bit.

Cheers
 
Joe42 said:
It should always be at 100% ;)
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I'm in the team. Stopped folding soon after I started though, got sick of the noise and high power consumption. ;)

Werewolf said:
is it a usb or parrallel printer connection?

If it's parrallel then check the port settings
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I'm using the parallel connection as I can't find the right USB cable for it, (the one with the fat square-ish end).
What are port settings, how do I check them, and what do I need to look for/change?
 
p4radox said:
I'm in the team. Stopped folding soon after I started though, got sick of the noise and high power consumption. ;)



I'm using the parallel connection as I can't find the right USB cable for it, (the one with the fat square-ish end).
What are port settings, how do I check them, and what do I need to look for/change?
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Have a muck-about with the parallel port settings in your BIOS. If you find a setting similar to "ECP+EPP" or mention of "DMA" then you want to use them (as opposed to all other options). You may find Windows re-detects your parallel port on rebooting, this is normal.
 
StefanHolmes said:
Have a muck-about with the parallel port settings in your BIOS. If you find a setting similar to "ECP+EPP" or mention of "DMA" then you want to use them (as opposed to all other options). You may find Windows re-detects your parallel port on rebooting, this is normal.
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Thanks, I'll give that a go :)
 
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