Unable to Find a Core Driver Package....

Use Windows Vista Ultimate and am trying to re-install an HP Officejet 5610
All-in-One printer, which stopped working following a recent Windows
Automatic Update.

Windows finds the printer and attempts to install driver software
automatically, but returns the message: 'Windows found software for your
device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Unable to
find a core driver package that is required by the printer device package'.

I've been through the usual plugging/unplugging USB cables, installing the
driver directly from the HP website, but the failure persists.

Anyone any ideas? Is it a registry fault? Any help would be awesome.

Digit

"Digit0" <available@onrequest> wrote:

> Use Windows Vista Ultimate and am trying to re-install an HP Officejet
> 5610 All-in-One printer, which stopped working following a recent Windows
> Automatic Update.
>
> Windows finds the printer and attempts to install driver software
> automatically, but returns the message: 'Windows found software for your
> device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Unable to
> find a core driver package that is required by the printer device
> package'.
>
> I've been through the usual plugging/unplugging USB cables, installing the
> driver directly from the HP website, but the failure persists.
>
> Anyone any ideas? Is it a registry fault? Any help would be awesome.

Download the drivers from HP, and install them manually:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/...isplay=drivers

Charlie42

I've done it. The problem is not the driver, but the core driver package
that the printer driver requires - which is why I wonder if the fault is in
the registry.

Digit0

"Charlie42" <> wrote in message
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> Download the drivers from HP, and install them manually:
>
> http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/...isplay=drivers
>
> Charlie42

Digit0;517939 Wrote:
> I've done it. The problem is not the driver, but the core driver package
> that the printer driver requires - which is why I wonder if the fault is
> in the registry.

The fault may very well be in the registry, as you say. It'll be worth
investigating.

But the possibility also lies with the poor support that HP has for
their products and Vista based computers. Sure. many of their products
do have Vista drivers available, but in almost all cases that I've seen
so far, their Vista drivers provide not even a fraction of the
functionality that the XP counterparts provide. The HP G85 (A4), 1220c
(A3) and 1700c (A3) printers are prime examples of this.

And also in far too many cases, when looking on the HP site for a Vista
driver, they usually say that a Vista driver is not available, or you
need to use a Vista driver for a different printer that *should* be
compatible with the one you want!


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Digit0 - do not get hung up on semantics - the drivers available via HP are
"core package" drivers. There has been a problem with
installing/reinstalling HP three-in-one units.

Uusual procedure requires uninstalling first, however even though
indications are that uninstallation was successful - residue is left
behind - which "prevents" installation /reinstallation.

HP is aware of the problem and provides an uninstall utility - unfortunately
it takes "fishing" around the HP site to locate it.



"Digit0" <available@onrequest> wrote in message
news:...
> Use Windows Vista Ultimate and am trying to re-install an HP Officejet
> 5610 All-in-One printer, which stopped working following a recent Windows
> Automatic Update.
>
> Windows finds the printer and attempts to install driver software
> automatically, but returns the message: 'Windows found software for your
> device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Unable to
> find a core driver package that is required by the printer device
> package'.
>
> I've been through the usual plugging/unplugging USB cables, installing the
> driver directly from the HP website, but the failure persists.
>
> Anyone any ideas? Is it a registry fault? Any help would be awesome.
>
> Digit

"AJR" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Digit0 - do not get hung up on semantics - the drivers available via HP
> are "core package" drivers. There has been a problem with
> installing/reinstalling HP three-in-one units.
>
> Uusual procedure requires uninstalling first, however even though
> indications are that uninstallation was successful - residue is left
> behind - which "prevents" installation /reinstallation.
>
> HP is aware of the problem and provides an uninstall utility -
> unfortunately it takes "fishing" around the HP site to locate it.

Hmm. Thanks for this. I'm back on the case. I vaguely remember something
called - I think - a 'level 3 uninstall' on the HP site. Maybe this is
what you are referring to. HP could make life easier if their searches
produced intelligent results. I got 163 returns for 'uninstall core
driver', many of which relate to the Mac.

Digit0

Not sure if this will help you or not but.... Uninstall all of the HP
drivers, disconnect the printer from the USB port. Download the Drivers from
HP. They do have a vista set of drivers, Install the drivers manual, but do
not connect the printer until requested by HP's install. Although I cannot
print multiple pages with the driver, everything else that I have used seems
to function.

"Digit0" wrote:

> Use Windows Vista Ultimate and am trying to re-install an HP Officejet 5610
> All-in-One printer, which stopped working following a recent Windows
> Automatic Update.
>
> Windows finds the printer and attempts to install driver software
> automatically, but returns the message: 'Windows found software for your
> device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. Unable to
> find a core driver package that is required by the printer device package'.
>
> I've been through the usual plugging/unplugging USB cables, installing the
> driver directly from the HP website, but the failure persists.
>
> Anyone any ideas? Is it a registry fault? Any help would be awesome.
>
> Digit
>
>