> I damaged a printer port in a bid to connect a printer to  to a PC
> that was on. This affected the floppy drive and serial port. I bought
> an I/O card the floppy dirve now works fine but I still have a
> problem configuring the printer port. I have disabled the onboard
> printer port in the CMOS setup but nothing seems to help. I get an
> error in the device manager that this device is not working properly.
> Does any one have a solution to this configuration problem?

        What kind of add in card did you get? (ISA or PCI) If it's ISA that is your
problem. The ISA card is probably NOT plug and play and therefore windows
has no idea you have installed it. Remove the printer port entry from device
manager and reboot. Then manually add the printer port using the add new
hardware wizard (don't let it auto detect, just select it manually). Please
note that you will have to know the IO addresse that the printer port is set
to (most likely 0x378). TTYL

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