[yoyo52]

Ever since installing 9.04 I've had intermittent problems with USB peripherals--all two of them. The important one is the printer, an Epson 740, which sometimes would print just dandy and then sometimes would crash everytime a document got spooled.

So I took the Power PC Enbler 9.04 out of the System Folder, and ever since, I've had not a single problem with the printer. In fact, the computer feels more stable with plain vanilla 9--haven't had a single crash since I took out the "upgrade." I should say that I'm talking about a G4 400 MHz with 256 MB of RAM as well as a Rev A iMac with 160 MB RAM.

[presspics]

Put the enabler back and replace the USB extension from 9.0.4 with the older OS 9 extension. The 9.0.4 USB extension seems to be causing lots of problems

[Adam Silver]

Also, get rid of the Epson USB Print Class in the Extensions folder. They can only cause problems.

[yoyo52]

Thanks for the suggestion about changing the USB extensions back to the OS 9 version and deleting the 9.04 versions. I did that, replacing the enabler file, and so far things are going OK. I had already disabled the Epson USB printer stuff, but thanks for the reminder.

[presspics]

Glad it's working for you . I did this 3 weeks ago and haven't had a USB problem since.