Quote Originally Posted by fowardbias View Post
Ding Dong, the Witch is dead, had to dump all of MS upgrades and the wonderful Service Patch 2 before I regained control of the port. Everything is now working as before. One of the files may have been in conflict with the port communications.? Just for fun I may add a few of Bill G's junk back in just to see where it is. MS....love it / hate it.
That's a bit wierd...
I'm running XP Home w/ SP2 and all those patches, all updated and everything...and everything on the parallel port is working, including an old vintage Win98SE era parallel port scanner (Mustek...garbage, but it works). I don't think it's ever NOT worked.
About the only thing I can think of is maybe your BIOS setting for the parallel port (Standard, ECP, EPP, ECP/EPP) might not be set right?

Did you try (1) deleting the printers and (2) printer drivers, (3) deleting the actual parallel port ((4)allowing a complete restart), then (5) letting XP reinstall the parallel port when it restarts (not the printer driver), then (6) reinstall the printer driver?

More straws for you to grasp at I guess...
Thanks again Winblows...but what else are you going to use?