Parallel card won't send print job

[Hacim]

I have a dell xps600 w/ win xp.
Just installed a cyberparallel pci card for a plotter.
I installed and updated the drivers ok and is in the device mangager under lpt3.
It will not send a test page to my plotter.
In the print que box, it shows two incidents of the print job even though I only tried to print 1 job.
I have tried two of the same cards with the same results.
Tried changing the port to lpt1 and it automatically changed the port back to lpt3.
I have printed to this plotter using the same card on another pc a couple of days before.
I Thought this was going to be straightforward

 

[franklin97355]

delete the print jobs and try again.

The answer has always been 42

 

[Hacim]

I've already done that several times.
Thanks

 

[G0AOZ]

I assume you have an existing parallel port, probably on the motherboard. What is this set to?

Check to see that the you're not sharing IRQs or Addresses with this card and any other parallel port(s), and then try setting this PCI card to LPT2, with say Address 278.

Does the BIOS recognise this second parallel port?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[edfair]

Suggest you rip every pointer to the printers out of XP, reboot and disable the parallel from the bios, then reinstall with the new card.
Should get rid of any cross linking.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[Hacim]

The system I just got has no parallel cards. I just installed one in the remaining pci slot. In the device manager there is a device "multifunction adapters with a SIIG CyberParallel PCI card (lpt2) irq 16
Under the ports is listed a cyberparallel pci (lpt2) - never use an interupt is picked.
How can you reinstall the card if you have disabled it in the bios?
Appreciate your response.

 

[edfair]

My bad. Assumption that there was probably an embedded parallel port that was probably interfering with recognition.
How about swapping it with another PCI slot. You said remaining so I now assume that there are possibly more than one but the others are in use with other devices. And a swap might relocate it.
Clean the existing out before the swap, however.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[micker377]

The system I just got has no parallel cards."

No cards, but does the motherboard have a parallel printer port built in?