Geekdom

[legalmoose]

Okay, in the hierarchy of geeks, I am but a minor player. But I'm comfortable enough with ripping the guts of my computer out and replacing things at will that when I need to upgrade, I do it.

This being said, I cannot get this extra parallel port card to work to save my life. ARGH!

Comments

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

Multiple parallel ports? Interesting... What for? =) It's possible that your computer may be out of IRQs, though I would hope not. You might want to consider getting a parallel port hub or a parallel-to-USB converter. =)

Ports

[legalmoose]

I have a printer and an oooooooooooold QuickCam VC, both of which use a parallel port to connect (yeah, the camera through the PP - ancient), so I wanted to put in a second PP so I could have both plugged in and not have to keep rebooting when I wanted to use one versus the other. Oh well!

Re: Ports

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

awww, major suckage. Yeah, from the sound of things, you either don't have enough IRQs or your motherboard isn't properly designating them. You (or I -- when Rich and I visit) could play with your BIOS settings to try and get it to work. =)

And no, I don't know what IRQs are lol.. I just know your motherboard has to designate them and with USB, you never have to worry about them. ;)

Re: Ports

[legalmoose]

It's funny, I have two USB ports on my motherboard, then I have some sort of USB thing that came with the MB that would give me two more, plus the old card from my old computer with two more, so I'm swimming in USB ports, just no devices. ;-)

The problem I'm having on install is that it wants to keep installing multiple PCI boards, all of which then have that stupid Win98 "this isn't working!" thing on them. :-p I so love computers some days. LOL!

Re: Ports

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

I have a messload of USB devices but only two ports. =( One of these days I'll get a USB hub hehe

Hmmmm, do you have the newest drivers for the parallel port PCI card? =)

Lordy, computers drive me batty sometimes. I've had such wierd behavior from them as of late for no good reason, its starting to scare me. My work computer continuously installs this printer we have in the office. Every few minutes it adds another install of the printer, so I had to switch it over to another server (which I have to log in manually to, but everyone else is connected to by default). That was really annoying since every day I'd have to delete the printer over 50 times.

Re: Ports

[legalmoose]

Yup, downloaded those, too (drivers). :)

PnP isn't all it was cracked up to be, some days.

Re: Ports

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

Freakish. If it was me, I'd just format the whole drive and upgrade =D ;)

I'm such a geek. hehe

Yeah, Plug N Play isn't all its cracked up to be *BUT* I prefer it to assigning everything manually hehe. =)

Re: Ports

[legalmoose]

Most days, yes. There are days when I yearn for the simplicity of DOS. ;-) (NOT!)

I've been through two (forced) HD upgrades int he last two years. No thanks! :-p

Re: Ports

[littlecrazycub.livejournal.com]

hahaha ;) But formatting is fun!!
*rolls eyes* >=)