I have this other ongoing problem that I have not been able to troubleshoot.
It plagued me for awhile, then went away, now it's back. It has taken me
days to pinpoint this much. If the accumulated wisdom of this list doesn't
have any brainstorms, I'd sure appreciate a referral to other sources.
Searching on MS's Knowledgebase has been fruitless, and other searches have
not turned up anything.
System 9.1, plenty of RAM (630MB)
Supermac J700
Sonnet Crescendo 500 card
Bear with me as I try to explain this. It "appears" to be something related
to desktop printing.
I print to an HP Laserjet 4050 shared on our LAN. It's the only printer
available to me.
When I'm using MS Excel 2001 (this didn't happen with Office 98), and I have
a spreadsheet with many, many formulas that calculate and refer to one
another, when I enter or change a value in a cell, Excel recalulates all the
affected cells. This is normal. But I'm experiencing a really annoying delay
(2-3 seconds) until the program becomes responsive again.
It does NOT appear to be part of the calculation of Excel. I can turn
automatic calculation OFF and have just manual calculation , and I get the
same symptom: this annoying 2-3 second delay. It also does not have any
apparent connection with links to other spreadsheets, as I get the delay
whether there are links or not.
Something appears to be making a call to whatever the currently chosen
printer is. I can hear the hard disk being accessed. If I change my chosen
printer to the "PrintToPDF" utility, the delay goes away.
So I've deduced it has something to do with the printer driver for the HP
4050 or some other printing-related s/w.
I've tried
- a clean system install
- fresh HP driver install
I've tried using Conflict Catcher to isolate any conflicting extensions, but
I have had a hard time telling if the problem has gone away/still exists
because the amount of delay I experience seems to become slightly less with
some settings (or does it??) and not with others.
But right now, another CC test is all I can think of.
Any other ideas or suggestions??
Doug Hinschberger
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