Missing LPT port

[Herm862001]

i'm trying to install a HP laserjet printer windows installs all the driver but i have no lpt port.
will booting into safe mode & deleting all devices work?

thanks

[icecube]

Some of the new motherboards don't have the old lpt ports--they use USB. If you have the port on the MB check the bios. It could be disabled. Set the port to ECP or ECP/EPP, the latter preferably.

Going into safe mode in Windows 98 and deleting all the ports would clean it up.

With 98 there is an ENUM procedure. You must have the Win 98 CAB's on the hard drive before to do the next step. Go to regedit and go to HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE. Under it, right click on ENUM and delete it and reboot. When the system reboots it will say found new hardware and it will reinstall all of the drivers. Don't reboot when it asks you to, let it finish finding devices--otherwise you reboot about 30 times. When you enum the system, the ability to read from the cdrom is gone--thats why the cab's have to be on the hard drive. Works great when switching out MB's on old systems.

[Herm862001]

im using xp sp2, didnt even think to look in the bios to see if its disabled, i think i might have disabled it to install another device sometime ago?