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Re: PCI paralel port
From:
Jeffrey Delzer <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 6 May 1999 12:04:36 -0500
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Dave Schroeder wrote:
>
> I just recently tried to add a PCI parallel port to my PII-266 only to
> find out that I didn't have an open IRQ.  All were already being used.
>
> Dave Schroeder
> [log in to unmask]

Just set the new parallel port to use IRQ 7. Windows assigns IRQ 7 to
LPT1, but it's apparently not actually needed in most cases, and will
happily share with a second port. I've set up several systems this way
in the past few months.

Jeff Delzer

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