Digitalbear

Have a windows workstation that was converted from win NT 4 to 2K (svc pack 4). Operated fine as a workstation for over a year but when it was recently moved to another location and, for the first time, had a printer installed on the parallel port, it began to give me fits. The printer itself is a small dot matrix receipt printer that has always seemed pretty hearty in the past. The behaviour began when it was added to this machine in particular. After speaking with Star Micronics, the manufacturer and trying some basic troubleshooting (ie. remove reinstall OEM drivers, attempt generic printer driver and sending some basic echo testmessage > lpt1 ) it was decided by the OEM that the parallel port on the machine was at fault. I was less that convinced and after booting the machine to a win98 boot disk and sending the echo command was succesfull. I then tried to remove the winnt/system32/spool/driver/3 folder contents (after stopping the spool service) and reinstalled them. still no love. Searched hi and low in the bios for an option to change to a non ecp type port but there does not seem to be an option for it at all. sigh. Out of desperation I reapplied the service pack 4 install in the hopes that the same issue coverd in svc pack 2 was also covered (assuming it is cumulative). no luck. So at this point I'm a little confused and wide-open to any suggestions?

jimscreechy

Hello Digi-B, You haven't really said what the problem is. ''Fits" hmmm begs clarification.

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beleg

I am having the same problem - having upgraded from w98se to w2k sp4, my system cannot find a printer driver for the parallel port. Under Hardware, Device Manager, Ports only COMs 1-4 are listed, there is no parallel port. Did you ever resolve tour problem, DigiBear?

Thanks