Weird Problem

DonWie

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First off I have 5 Windows computers in my house. 3 with 8.1, and 2 with Windows 7. I have an ASUS RT-AC66U wireless router that supports A, B, G, N, & AC. My problem is with my HP 7520 All-In-One printer hooked up wirelessly. With all the pc's off and the printer on in standby mode, I can start all of my pc's but one of them and my printer will work fine. As soon as I turn on one specific Windows 8.1 pc, the printer will flash all of its lights and no one can print to it. If I turn it off then on it will do the same thing. Once I turn off the one specific PC and then restart the printer it will then work fine till I turn on that one PC. None of the PC's are on wireless, all are Ethernet.

Does any one have any ideas, or does any one need some more info.

Thanks

Don
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
I have the same router AC66U but it's set up as an access point.

That is a strange problem indeed, I should ask, have you updated to the latest firmware on your Asus AC66U?

The latest firmware releases have many fixes that may help with this problem.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download RT-AC66U
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro WMC
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home built
    CPU
    Q9650 @ 4.05 GHz
    Motherboard
    Gforce 780i SLI FTW
    Memory
    8GB Gskill DDR2 1200Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    GTX-480
    Sound Card
    Asus D2 Xonar
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HannsG
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Gskill 120GB SSD
    PSU
    Thermal Take 1000watts
    Case
    Thermal Take Xtreme
    Cooling
    9 fans air cooled
    Keyboard
    G15 logitech
    Mouse
    G9 logitech
    Internet Speed
    50mbps
Have you assigned a static ip address for your printer? You will have ip conflicts when the router DHCP hands out ip address when you restart the computers/devices.

By default on most wireless routers, the DHCP IP address range is typically 192.168.1.100 thru
192.168.1.149 and addresses cannot end in 0, 1, or 255. Any fixed (static) IP address must be
outside the DHCP server range.
This means that IP addresses you want to assign to devices, such as printers, need use an
address in the range of 192.168.1.2 thru 192.168.1.99 or 192.168.1.150 thru 192.168.1.254
(assuming you are still using the default DHCP server range)

The HP printer support website has the information about setting up a static ip address on their printers.

good luck!
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 & W10 Tech Priview
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell 15R
    CPU
    Intell i3
    Internet Speed
    6 Mbps
    Browser
    Chrome
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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