printer port

It all depends on the board itself sometimes mamufacturers make the boards/bios so when an add in card is put in it will lautomatically disable the on board feature. I'm not sure if that's the case since i dont have that information. But you can give it a shot or go to the manufacturers website and find some info about the board.

Hi,

Some motherboards allow disable in BIOS, others require a jumper to disable someting, and others require a jumper to enable the BIOS setup to manage the resource.

Printer ports are usually assigned via BIOS setup, on IRQ 7 and i/o port 378, a second port will usually go to IRQ 5 and i/o port 3BC. To see if the BIOS setup will actually disable the onboard device, set it to disable then uninstall the printer port from Windows Device Manager, then shut down and see if the 'new hardwarefound' wizard runs at the next boot. If not, then the BIOS disable did work, so install the new card and carry on. If not, rely on the motherboard manual or set the new card to use an available IRQ and install it as the second port --> Lpt2: ...

You normally can disable the port in the BIOS. Would be found in the on board devices section. Then install the new card, set the jumpers (if it has any) and let windows find it. At that point you can use Device Manager to adjust the address and make it LPT1.

I have seen many pentium II boards that have chucked the parallel port. have 2 sitting here if any body want them.. Only question i have is do you have USB ports.. that is how i worked around it. Just bought USB printer..

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