I have a pentium MoBo (ECS - HX chipset) with the usual built in paralell port. It stopped working suddenly. MSD recognises LPT1 but claims that the port is offline and busy. MSD printer test returns a response "file corrupted or printer offline". My text editor says printer offline if I try to print a file. However when I cold boot the system the print head moves and makes noises as if everything is ok. How can I findout what is wrong with the port? Until a couple of days ago, I had EZ-135 drive attached to that port and it worked fine. When I could not acces that drive, I attached a printer to see ifthe port is working. Thanks for your help. Regards Harsha Godavari