[HM] 8500 freezes when printing ...

[Stan Gould]

I can't help you with the printing problem; but, referring to your 
last paragraph, I can help you in paring down the system: use 
Extension Overload. It is a great extension and control panel manager 
that lets you turn them on and off easily. It helps you locate the 
extensions and control panels that you don't need.
Take a look at <www.extensionoverload.com>. It was rated 5 cows by 
www.tucows.com and 5 stars by www.macnn.com. I use it and won't work 
without it.

Stan

At 2:11 PM -0600 12/14/02, Bryan Forbes wrote:
>Hoping someone will give me some ideas/insight or otherwise to get 
>this going ...
>
>I am troubleshooting an 8500/120 at the Grade School I work at for 
>one of our 6th grade teachers.  I have already dumped the older OS 
>and updated the unit to OS 7.6.1.  She hadn't been able to print or 
>get on the net there in years, so I got her on the network and 
>promised her (and another mac using teacher) that I'd get them 
>printing as well.
>
>Everything has gone well except for this one item.  On this unit 
>(8500/120 running OS 7.6.1) I hooked up to a Asante 
>Localtalk/Ethernet converter & Apple Laserwriter Select 360, I get a 
>freeze as the print job is sent.  The printing connection is through 
>a normal ethernet cable from the 8500 to the drop in the classroom 
>and ethernet back out of the drop and to the Asante unit.
>
>The print job pops up on the desktop printer and then the 8500 just 
>locks up.  After you start the unit back up ( via a 3 fingered 
>salute), the print job goes on through or it freezes again. 
>Finally, the print jobs will clear out and the machine will stop 
>freezing.
>
>I have a different ethernet drivers in the extensions folder ... do 
>I only need the "built-in driver" and ditch the others.  Something 
>obviously doesn't like each other when a print job is sent through 
>(doesn't matter what the application is that's printing -- 
>Clarisworks 4 and Icab both freeze when requesting a print job).
>
>I searched through MacFixit and couldn't find anything through a 
>search for "printing + freezes".
>
>Do I do the normal troubleshooting routing of starting with a 
>barebones system and start adding back in extensions until I find 
>the problem?  Does anybody have any insight into what the possible 
>culprit would be?  I have ditched a lot of other non-essential 
>extensions already in trying to pare the system down to essential 
>extensions.