First find a tech or friend with a parallel port loop back plug and
diagnostic soft. This will tell if the port has physically failed or not.
If it still tests bad then check the motherboard for the FCC code and look
it up at http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/.

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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of dhkiley
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCBUILD] printer failure

Gentlemen: My machine seems to have a problem communicating with the
parallel port for my printer. After several attempts with several different
printers, different drivers, add hdw. wizard, I asked a tech at a local
computer store and he informs me there is a communication failure to the
port. Also, there seems to be no way to identify the motherboard, but the
name of the machine is M 2 Systems (M Squared Sys). This machine originally
had Win 98, now has ME and there seems to be no other conflicts anywhere,
and seems to be quite stable. Can anyone help clear up this problem?

Thank you.

Dean Kiley

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