LPT1 Port gone

[flash4master]

heres what happened: i have a aureal vortex2 based sound card (MX300) the one with about 6 diff. functions in teh device manager. and the dos sb emu. wanst workin (i play games in dos) so i went to the deviece manager and to told it to configure and now the irq from teh printer was used and i cannot get it back. any1 that can help would be appreciated

chris

[qball]

If you want your soundcard to work in DOS configure it in DOS through the config.sys file.

It sound like you configured the SB and the IRQ for the parallel port (lpt1) was used. Does lpt1 still exist in Device Mangler, and does it have any conflicts?

If the lpt1 is gone from device mangler, then see if you can add one. If you can't delete the SB DOS emu, and then add lpt1.

On next boot Winders may try to install the SB DOS emu (just let it). You can then go in to Device mangler again and disable from the current profile.

[flash4master]

qball: in device mangler, if i delete the profile for the emu, it automatically reloads, **** this PnP sh**. also i have looked everywhere and not been able to find a way reinstall or add the parallel port back. i dont want to redo win98 b/c i just did a format and install of it about 2 times last week and finally got the hdd set up the way i like it. i have a printer card that came out of an old old system that i really dont want to use but will if i have too. any other tricks to fix it back up? i cant wait to get my server up and runnin with linux

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 06-30-2000).]

[flash4master]

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[flash4master]

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[Nathan]

Do a safe mode boot and do the following;

1. Delete the all the sound card devices that show up

2. Delete the LPT port that appears there.

3. If you have any duplicate entries under the rest of the devices, delete both of them.

Reboot and let windows redetect them. That should get back you LPT1. Let us know what happens.

[flash4master]

alright, thanks for tryin to help. i was messin around in the bios adn noticed that the port got disabled in there. hope i dont run out of toner for my laser printer anytime soon.
chris