How to add a printer port and com ports to a DELL without either?

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Bo Berglund

I have bought a DELL Dimension 9100 and I did not check the ports in
the specs before. Now it turns out that the PC comes with *NO* printer
port and *NO* com: ports whatsoever. Only a number of USB ports...

I am really in need of both so I tried to install a combo I/O board
with one printer port and two com ports. It is a Q-Tec Serial-parallel
PCI card (item 12887).
I followed the instructions both on the CD thta came with the board
and on their website (after downloading a later driver).

What happens is that I am seeing a non-working (yellow exclamation
mark) device (PCI 4079A Multi-I/O Adapter) in device manager.
If I open this device properties it displays:
"This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the
drivers required for this device. (Code 31)"

In Eventlog I also see this mentioned as follows:
"The description for Event ID ( 3 ) in Source ( SNXPCARD ) cannot be
found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry
information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote
computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this
description; see Help and Support for details. The following
information is part of the event: ; Unable to
GetSunixPCICardDeviceNo.."

And now I don't know where to go from here.

Please note that I cannot use a USB connected printer port expansion
unit because these are incompatible with the dongles that come with
software I use. So I think I must add a hardware unit like this.

Any ideas?

/Bo


Bo Berglund
bo.berglund(at)nospam.telia.com
 
What happens is that I am seeing a non-working (yellow exclamation
mark) device (PCI 4079A Multi-I/O Adapter) in device manager.
If I open this device properties it displays:
"This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the
drivers required for this device. (Code 31)"
Click to expand...

The first thing I would try is to put it in a different PCI-slot.
Interrupts are often shared and are hard-assigned to these slots. This
results in this extra card sharing it's interrupt with a specific
piece of computerhardware. Sometimes there can be a conflict arising
from shaing an interrupt with another device.

It may or may not work but it is a very simple thing to try.

There is alway the chance that it is defective. Try it in a different
machine if you can.

And check whether there are USB-dongles available for your software.
 
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