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[Darrel Taylor]

Hi Franko,

I use the EPIC with Media Center version of XP and they work great together. All you need to do is modify the registry a bit.

Go to this page at meLabs
http://www.melabs.com/support/patches.htm

Down at the bottom, in the Stop Windows XP from polling printer port section, is a file you can download that automatically makes the registry changes for you.

HTH,
   Darrel

[Franko]

Thank you all.

Darrel, I saw that file but not exactly sure how/where to add it. I know how to get into the regedit.

Can you please advise me ?

I also tried the meprog beta version and it gave it's own strange problems.

Thanks

[Darrel Taylor]

Piece of cake. Just click on the file, then choose RUN when prompted, or save it somewhere on your hard disk, then double click on it after downloading.

It will prompt if you want to add this information to the registry. Click Yes. It will give a confirmation that it was completed. Then re-boot the computer for it to take effect.

HTH,
   Darrel

[Franko]

Darrel,

I hope I'm missing something and not just being a dimwit,but when I click on the link "Download XP_stop_polling.reg (1K)"at meLabs all that comes up is the text. I don't see any place to choose run or anything. Bad link or ???

Thanks

[Darrel Taylor]

Somethings probably messed up the association with the .reg files.

Right click on the link and choose Save Target As..., and save the file to your hard disk.

Open regedit, and go to the File | Import dialog and locate the file that you saved.

Darrel

[Franko]

OK, The reason the file wasn't working is because I was using Firefox as my browser and the meLab site evidently doesn't support it for that kind of file.

I changed back to IE and the file worked perfect.Now I keep getting the unable to start driver PICLPTNT error.

This happened before and I got it working but I can't remeber how I fixed it before.

Thanks for the help and your patience.

[Franko]

I removed the PICLPTNT driver and reinstalled it as administrator and that took care of that, I checked the registry and the stop polling file is there.

The last,most persistant problem is "code programing error 0000".
No matter what PIC is in the epic or none at all. I'm using the same EPIC,same cable,same power supply that worked perfect on the old laptop.

Does anyone have any other ideas ? I appreciate all the help.

Thanks,

Franko