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Smackre · 12-13-2006, 11:26 AM

So a buddy of mine had some computer problems. So he took to this shop to get it fixed. Turns out hes MB was bad. So the guy gets him a new motherboard. Installes it. And my buddy gets it back and hooks everone back up. And everthing is working except the soundcard and the printer port.

So he takes it back to the place. And for some odd reason this place installs a second sound card instead of fixing the first one. The new motherboard had a onboard soundcard. And some reason puts in 2 brand new ram chips. Now the bill is up to 250$ and he did not need 1/2 this shit.

So he calls me up and i go over and take a look. Turns out the reason the first sound card didnt work was because they didnt install the driver. So i take out the second sound card and install the driver for the first one. Fixing that issue. And i take out all this xtra ram they did not need. They had 512 ram and he put in 1 gig more. And i sent them all back to the place he took the computer to in the first place and got hes $$ back for those.

But the problem im running into is i cant get the dang Printer port to work. When you check it in device manager it says there is a conflict. If you go into it and look at what it says. It says the driver is not telling it the configuration of the port. And if u go back the resources it has nothing setup. I tried reinstalling it but there is something messed up with the driver i think. But i have no idea where to get a new driver. Ive never had to install a driver for a printer port. Windows usualy just autoinstalls the printer port. Ive never even herd of a printer port driver unless its a special printer port.

So any suggestions would be great. Thanks :-)

Dragonlich · 12-14-2006, 11:19 AM

Probably a stupid question, but did you check the bios? The printer port may be turned off. Or you could try setting it up differently there, that might work.

...or not.

Martel · 12-14-2006, 07:06 PM

My guess would be that the parallel isn't set up properly in the BIOS. It's an easy thing to overlook when changing the seventh random person's motherboard for the week, and sometimes the default in the BIOS is set to disable it.

No drivers for the sound card is just sloppy though, I wouldn't take my computer back to that shop. The drivers would have come on the friggin CD for the new motherboard. Assuming that it really was a NEW motherboard.

Smackre · 12-18-2006, 10:11 AM

You guys were right. It was disabled in bios. Enabled it and it works fine now.

Thanks for the great advise

12-13-2006, 11:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	Printer Port Driver So a buddy of mine had some computer problems. So he took to this shop to get it fixed. Turns out hes MB was bad. So the guy gets him a new motherboard. Installes it. And my buddy gets it back and hooks everone back up. And everthing is working except the soundcard and the printer port. So he takes it back to the place. And for some odd reason this place installs a second sound card instead of fixing the first one. The new motherboard had a onboard soundcard. And some reason puts in 2 brand new ram chips. Now the bill is up to 250$ and he did not need 1/2 this shit. So he calls me up and i go over and take a look. Turns out the reason the first sound card didnt work was because they didnt install the driver. So i take out the second sound card and install the driver for the first one. Fixing that issue. And i take out all this xtra ram they did not need. They had 512 ram and he put in 1 gig more. And i sent them all back to the place he took the computer to in the first place and got hes $$ back for those. But the problem im running into is i cant get the dang Printer port to work. When you check it in device manager it says there is a conflict. If you go into it and look at what it says. It says the driver is not telling it the configuration of the port. And if u go back the resources it has nothing setup. I tried reinstalling it but there is something messed up with the driver i think. But i have no idea where to get a new driver. Ive never had to install a driver for a printer port. Windows usualy just autoinstalls the printer port. Ive never even herd of a printer port driver unless its a special printer port. So any suggestions would be great. Thanks :-) __________________ Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

12-14-2006, 07:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Martel Insane Location: Sage's bed	My guess would be that the parallel isn't set up properly in the BIOS. It's an easy thing to overlook when changing the seventh random person's motherboard for the week, and sometimes the default in the BIOS is set to disable it. No drivers for the sound card is just sloppy though, I wouldn't take my computer back to that shop. The drivers would have come on the friggin CD for the new motherboard. Assuming that it really was a NEW motherboard. __________________ Anamnesis

12-18-2006, 10:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	You guys were right. It was disabled in bios. Enabled it and it works fine now. Thanks for the great advise __________________ Intel® Pentium® M Processor 730 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

12-14-2006, 11:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
Dragonlich 42, baby! Location: The Netherlands	Probably a stupid question, but did you check the bios? The printer port may be turned off. Or you could try setting it up differently there, that might work. ...or not.