[WriteLog] A thought regarding XP and parallel port issues

[Mark Shaum]

This is strictly a thought regarding parallel port keying issues with XP
and various device drivers that I have not seen posted in this forum.
Most motherboards have three flavors of configuration for the LPT port
available in the BIOS setup, Standard, EPP and ECP.  Windows drivers
will treat each of these differently.  Different resources are allocated
(visible in device manager) for the three flavors.

I suggest booting XP (or W2K as applicable), remove the LPT printer port
by uninstalling it from Device Manager, reboot the system, but go into
the motherboard BIOS setup upon reboot.  Select another of the available
options for the LPT hardware config.  Reboot, let the OS discover the
"new" hardware and reinstall its standard drivers.  Then install
Userport or DirectIO (or re-run their configs), try WL, and see if there
is any difference.

I don't use parallel port keying myself, but have noted behavior
differences depending on hardware port setup.  My parallel port attached
scanner is considerablly faster when using ECP when compared to using
EPP or Standard, though it still functions in the other modes.

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