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updating hardware database problem

Nov 8, 2004 12:25AM PST

I've just bought a new lexmark Z615 printer and it won't install. On the install screen it says nothing is attached (and it is) if I try to install printer all I get is the little screen saying "updating hardware database" but it is NOT RESPONDING...........
I just don't know what to do, can ayone advise me.
I'm not a computer buff so no fancy language, plain simple english :o)
I'm using windows ME

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Re: updating hardware database problem
Nov 8, 2004 12:46AM PST
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Re: updating hardware database problem
Nov 8, 2004 12:51AM PST

Thanks for a prompt reply. Not being confident enough to mess with things, can you tell me where I need to go and what to do?

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You don't have to do a thing.
Nov 8, 2004 1:05AM PST

In another discussion the owner decided to wait about 125 minutes for the files to be worked through. It's a bug in Windoctor that was never corrected by Symantec. Here's when I first reported it some 4 years ago.

http://www.bugnet.com/alerts/bugalert_010110.html

Links about the issue are provided, but if you wait long enough the dialog box finishes and the device will install.

Bob