I HATE HARDWARE!!! Guru's, your suggestions needed please on a Canon Laser Printer.
 

I have the opportunity to purchase a Canon, CLBP 360PS on the cheap for home if I can make it work. If I can't then I don't buy it. So this is not critical but I hate not being able to figure something out with out a logical explanation. With that in mind... I am ready to punt this 200lb machine out the front door and run over it with the truck.

Power on: Some times it will pass connection scans. Then sometimes get an SCSI error. I don't use SCSI so not a big deal.

Continues to try to boot, but during boot scan just flashes scanning boot device every 5-10 seconds but never continues. Or gives me an "Error Loading Boot File" message

Of course since I can't get it to boot, I can't bring it up online; So I can't find and install a new boot file... so I am helpless at this point.

Then Canon does not support their older machines :mad:

If anyone knows any of Canons common workarounds or has any troubleshooting tips what so ever; Please share.
If I can skip the boot and just bring it up as a printer on the LPT port then I'd be happy.

Thanks in advance.

You probably are going to need to find a message/help board realated to this type of machine unless somebody is directly familiar with it. You could also try digging around on Cannon's website. Sometimes you can find fixes for stuff if it's a common issue. Hp used to be pretty good about that. The only Cannon equipment I've worked with are scanners.

Try this site....
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/?se...TER+ERROR&n=71

I've been browsing for a couple of hours now, I hadn't found that board yet. I see 3 other people there that are having the same problem. Thinking about looking on e-bay and see if I can find a board and hard drive for it. It's got to be one or the other. I'm leaning towards the hard drive.

Since I posted I can sometimes get it to display "Press menu to enter set up" But soon as I do, then I get the "Error Loading Boot File" message again. :mad:
Ohh it's tempting me. It give me just a little bit of head way, just enough to give me hope and make me decide to keep working on it! Then it shoots me down.... :(

I am not experinced in Canon either. After this lack of support I won't be either.. unless I get cheap used ones that I can't pass up like this for home. But if buying new.... it will contnue to be HP or Brother. Although we did get a Zebra thermal label printer at work and thier support was phenominal, but it was new and the data port was bad.

Sounds like a fine candidate for target practice. Lock and load. :devil:

Sorry, I dunno jack about printers, if they don't print, I take it to someone that can make it print and make up the difference by fixing their car or something.

Sounds like the thing that PSS is working on is a bit more than "just a printer". Some of those things are stand alone computers/printers.

Yea it's basically it's own computer. Appears to be a pretty strong one at that.
I really dont know much about it, first time that I seen it was tonight.
Has a hard drive
8 slots for ram "when scanning it say it's DDR" Only has 4 sticks installed but I didn;t pull them to see waht they are yet.
It has a processor of some kind
full mother board
the works!

If I can get it to work it should be a beast of a printer (slight overkill for home) but better than over working one I guess. :lol:
I've only worked on one similar at the publishing/ISP I worked at. But it was an HP and it never had a hardware issue while I was there. Actually... it didn't ever have any issues besides ocasional dirty/bad rollers or other routine maintainence. Should mention too that the newspaper used that one ALOT. Wish I could afford one of those like it for myself.