I thank you all so much for your suggestions, yes it was disabled in the bios. I did enable it, and still no luck. I am thinking that the suggestion of installing a pci printer card is the best route at this point, and quite possibly, the least expensive. I did disable the sound pro sb16 in the bios and added a hi-pro live card and the machine recognized that immediately, so the pnp aware section is function properly and just makes sense that it would also recognize an add on card for my purposes... once again, thank you all very much..

Dean...
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: michele sayer 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 7:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] printer failure


  I don't know if this might help, but on one occasion, my printer port had
  been disabled in the bios.
  Took me ages to work it out, but it was as simple as that.
  When I enabled it, it was fine. Until then, I had tried a number of
  different ways to install the printer with no luck.
  Have u checked within the bios of your system?
  Worth looking, I'd say.
  Michele
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "dhkiley" <[log in to unmask]>
  To: <[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:51 PM
  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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