hello,

I'm a new member but found the help on this site which enabled me to solve the problem of failure of the PC to talk to the printer so thought I ought to record the action I took for others to try, if needed.

I had assembled a PC fro my nest door neighbour from an old MSI board but had not tested it with his Epson Stylus 600 which I had provided him with for an earlier machine which I had given him.

The 600 wouldn't cooperate with the new m/c running ME with Award BIOS, although selftest was OK and the spooler was attempting to spool.

Took three steps:

1 Reconfigured parallel port to EPP+ECP
2 Disabled spooler to send file direct to printer
3 File EPCTRL.DLL was missing from c:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM - for what reason I cannot tell. When this file was put in place the setup worked.

Hope this may be of some use

Great site for solution of problems like this for a 74 year old Dumbo

AlexR