Guest Scott S. Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 I recently built a new computer for a customer using the Asus P5E-WS Professional Motherboard. As is the case nowadays the board had no parallel port. The customer uses a piece of DOS based engineering software that has a parallel port (LPT1) authentication dongle. I installed a PCI-e adaptor and all appeared to go well however the software wouldn’t read the dongle. The device manager shows the card installed and working but when I went to the show hidden devices in the device manager it shows the parallel port driver cannot start. The event viewer shows The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it." I cannot manually start it either. I uninstalled and reinstalled the card as well as the driver with no success. The OS is Windows XP with service pack 3 and all the updates. I don’t believe this is a hardware issue but has anyone ever seen an issue like this? I think it has to do with the fact that there was no parallel port when Windows was originally loaded but I don't know how to work around it.
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