Zip Parallel Drive Causes Reboot

[dleigh]

I have a Zip 100 Parallel Drive. If I access something on the Zip drive right after a fresh re-boot all is well and works as expected. I can even do some some simultaneous printing and Zip access.

BUT...if I've been on the computer for a little while (even without any printing) and then put a disk in the Zip drive, the computer reboots.

Thoughts? Suggestions?
Thanks!

 

[AidanEnos]

What OS/hardware are you running? You may want to update your OS (Win95?) with any patches from

http://www.microsoft.com

As well you may want to go to your MB home page and see if there is a firmware upgrade for you MB, if you don't know what you have go to

http://www.belarc.com

and run that software, it'll identify it so you can search for an upgrade.

Other than that, I hate zip disks - they are slow, unreliable, noisy and expensive. Get a CD burner P

Aidan

 

[dleigh]

Well, I'm running Win98 SE and I recently downloaded and installed the lastest BIOS update on my ASUS MB but the problem persists. I may need to also do the same from Iomega (which I've not done yet).

I'd much rather have a CD burner but it's an issue of $$$ at the moment...but boy would it be NICE!

Any other clues? Many thanks,
dleigh