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by anoopkck

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In my PC on board printer port is faulty.I would like to add
a printer card or SID card.There is no option to to
disable the onboard port thro' setup and I don't have
the mother board manual also.Is it neccessary to disable
faulty port???I've not done this earliear.Pls send me your
precious advices...

rgds

anoop

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by recce

Taking your OS to be MS Windows, go to your Device Manager and scroll to your whichever COM Port your paralle port sits and access it's properties and disable the hardware. If yours is NT, go Control Panel under Devices, set the parallel to Manual Start. Your new printer card or SID card must be detected and enabled/started.

by ann777

You don't necessarily need to disable the port, you could just add the card and program it to use another port (LPT2:)

You might be able to disable it in the bios; Press F2 to enter setup (or whatever your system requires) and see if it's an option.

You should also be able to disable it through device manager.

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