how hard can it be to install a pci Parallel card

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Hi my new motherboard has only USB so I bought a parallel card for the
computer for my printer. It came with a mini cd. I went to find new
hardware and pointed it at the CD drive. I just get errors in
installing the driver.

This should be dead easy ?

Desmond.
 
Hi my new motherboard has only USB so I bought a parallel card for the
computer for my printer. It came with a mini cd. I went to find new
hardware and pointed it at the CD drive. I just get errors in
installing the driver.

This should be dead easy ?

Desmond.
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I appear to have a PCI Parallel port (LPT3) NOT 1

Printing from note pad gives me this

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Des said:
Hi my new motherboard has only USB so I bought a parallel card for the
computer for my printer. It came with a mini cd. I went to find new
hardware and pointed it at the CD drive. I just get errors in
installing the driver.

This should be dead easy ?
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I appear to have a PCI Parallel port (LPT3) NOT 1
Printing from note pad gives me this
A startDocCall was not issued
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A couple things to look at:

Does your motherboard have an LPT port, even if there is no physical
connector on the backplane? If so, you may have to disable it in BIOS to
release the resources.

Your printer may not support LPT3. After checking the MoBo port in BIOS,
try to reset the PCI card port to LPT1.
 
A couple things to look at:

    Does your motherboard have an LPT port, even if there is no physical
connector on the backplane?  If so, you may have to disable it in BIOS to
release the resources.

    Your printer may not support LPT3.  After checking the MoBo port in BIOS,
try to reset the PCI card port to LPT1.
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No there is no in built parallel the card is an Asus M3N78 Pro. This
thing worked years ago when i used win 98
 
Des said:
No there is no in built parallel the card is an Asus M3N78 Pro. This
thing worked years ago when i used win 98
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There can be a parallel port interface on the Super I/O chip (it just isn't
wired to a connector). The OS may be detecting that, and giving that LPT1.

If you go to Device Manager, can you disabled LPT1 in there ?
Or rearrange the LPT numbers in the properties for the parallel port(s) ?

Paul
 
There can be a parallel port interface on the Super I/O chip (it just isn't
wired to a connector). The OS may be detecting that, and giving that LPT1.

If you go to Device Manager, can you disabled LPT1 in there ?
Or rearrange the LPT numbers in the properties for the parallel port(s) ?

Paul
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Might add - getting, download EVEREST 1.51.195 - not sure which is the
last freeware. Provides a detailed look at the hardware. Get the
default IRQs and Port assignments for LP1 LP2 and work within those
values - mismapped for ranges that attempt to walk over one another is
going to be more errors. If that MB is hardwired to LP1, then the
pinjumper matrixes on the PCI board have to be adjusted for LP2.
Almost as much fun as setting up modems for a serial port, but not
quite what building a ribbon, identifying strobe assignments, for
connecting to the MB's LP1 jumper block.
 
Might add - getting, download EVEREST 1.51.195 - not sure which is the
last freeware.  Provides a detailed look at the hardware.  Get the
default IRQs and Port assignments for LP1 LP2 and work within those
values - mismapped for ranges that attempt to walk over one another is
going to be more errors.  If that MB is hardwired to LP1, then the
pinjumper matrixes on the PCI board have to be adjusted for LP2.
Almost as much fun as setting up modems for a serial port, but not
quite what building a ribbon, identifying strobe assignments, for
connecting to the MB's LP1 jumper block.
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I have checked device manager. I only have a com1 and an LPT3. There
is no mention of LP1 on in the manual Asus M3N78 Pro.
Does the Device LPT1 2 3 or 4 depend on a phisical address i.e. 3F8
 
Des said:
I have checked device manager. I only have a com1 and an LPT3. There
is no mention of LP1 on in the manual Asus M3N78 Pro.
Does the Device LPT1 2 3 or 4 depend on a phisical address i.e. 3F8
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I tried changing mine to 0x278, and it stayed at LPT1. I went into
Device Manager, and used the Port tab for the Parallel Port, and
it allowed me to change LPT1 to LPT2 via a menu.

But there is no particular reason that a PCI based one should behave
the same.

Paul
 
I tried changing mine to 0x278, and it stayed at LPT1. I went into
Device Manager, and used the Port tab for the Parallel Port, and
it allowed me to change LPT1 to LPT2 via a menu.

But there is no particular reason that a PCI based one should behave
the same.

    Paul
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I agree. back in the late 80s (showing my age) The card had jumbpers
on it and you could set the phisical address so that no conflict
occured with an LPT! if there was one. This chineese card has no
jumpers. I am convinced that if I could set it to LPT1, my printer
woud work. This is a PCI not an ISA card so it might be difficult to
get one with jumpers.

Des.
 
I agree. back in the late 80s (showing my age) The card had jumbpers
on it and you could set the phisical address so that no conflict
occured with an LPT! if there was one. This chineese card has no
jumpers. I am convinced that if I could set it to LPT1, my printer
woud work. This is a PCI not an ISA card so it might be difficult to
get one with jumpers.

Des.
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Sorry if I'm asking the obvious, but you didn't say whether you
installed your printer's driver after installing your card. Did you?

Is your printer associated with the correct port, ie LPT3 instead of
USBPRN01?

- Franc Zabkar
 
I have checked device manager. I only have a com1 and an LPT3. There
is no mention of LP1 on in the manual Asus M3N78 Pro.
Does the Device LPT1 2 3 or 4 depend on a phisical address i.e. 3F8
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I wouldn't even go near a LPT3.
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Most PC-compatible systems in the 1980s and 1990s had one or two
ports, with communication interfaces defined like this:
* LPT1: I/O port 0x378, IRQ 7 (usually in monochrome graphics
adapters)
* LPT2: I/O port 0x278, IRQ 5 (usually in serial port controller,
or the stand-alone IBM Printer adapter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPT
 
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