Disabling ECP Port

[Warren D. Olfert]

I have Windows XP Pro on an office machine that has an NEC Superscript 870
connected to it. NEC has a status monitor that acts as a driver and does
other things (2-up, duplex, etc.). It WILL NOT work with an ECP parallel
port. NEC suggests disabling it both in the BIOS setup and in Windows,
configuring the port as a standard port. There is no apparent update on the
NEC site beyond these instructions.

I have changed the setting in the BIOS, but it still is read as an ECP port
in Windows. Despite looking in every nook and cranny in Windows, I can't
find where to diable this (this includes the printer properties). Can
anyone help with this issue? The printer has gone from being blazing fast
to being incredibly pokey--using the supplied WinXP driver.

Thanks.
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Warren D. Olfert

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Did you disable the parallel port, or did you change the ECP designation to
something other, such as EPP? Did you perform a "save" and "exit" from the
bios? If you didn't, the change did not take place!

"Warren D. Olfert" > wrote in message
...
> I have Windows XP Pro on an office machine that has an NEC Superscript 870
> connected to it. NEC has a status monitor that acts as a driver and does
> other things (2-up, duplex, etc.). It WILL NOT work with an ECP parallel
> port. NEC suggests disabling it both in the BIOS setup and in Windows,
> configuring the port as a standard port. There is no apparent update on
the
> NEC site beyond these instructions.
>
> I have changed the setting in the BIOS, but it still is read as an ECP
port
> in Windows. Despite looking in every nook and cranny in Windows, I can't
> find where to diable this (this includes the printer properties). Can
> anyone help with this issue? The printer has gone from being blazing fast
> to being incredibly pokey--using the supplied WinXP driver.
>
> Thanks.
> -----------------------------
> Warren D. Olfert
>
>

[Donald Link]

Have you thought about installing a plain printer port card. worked for me
when needed.




"Warren D. Olfert" > wrote in message
...
> I have Windows XP Pro on an office machine that has an NEC Superscript 870
> connected to it. NEC has a status monitor that acts as a driver and does
> other things (2-up, duplex, etc.). It WILL NOT work with an ECP parallel
> port. NEC suggests disabling it both in the BIOS setup and in Windows,
> configuring the port as a standard port. There is no apparent update on
the
> NEC site beyond these instructions.
>
> I have changed the setting in the BIOS, but it still is read as an ECP
port
> in Windows. Despite looking in every nook and cranny in Windows, I can't
> find where to diable this (this includes the printer properties). Can
> anyone help with this issue? The printer has gone from being blazing fast
> to being incredibly pokey--using the supplied WinXP driver.
>
> Thanks.
> -----------------------------
> Warren D. Olfert
>
>