Greetings -
Argggh, a long ugly story about a melted motherboard. I'll skip the udetails.
I replaced the mobo, with another from the same manufacturer - but a different model and chipset. VIA instead of Intel
All is well except the printer - which now only form feeds and prints one line out of many. It is the same printer, same cables, same version of Warp that worked before. About every minute WARP burps and gives me an error message, but other than flashing lights, nothing really prints.
The mobo has a pci/parallel printer port, with the same interrupt level and address as before. I've set up the BIOS to ECP, etc.
I am "guessing" that a pci-parallel card might produce different results. If that a good guess or not?
The same printer, on the same mobo, but under XP, works fine. I can also attach it to my wife's system and it works fine.
I should mention that the USB ports don't work now, but I am using nonstandard USB code (Chris' USB mass storage kit V1.2) and I expected I might have trouble some day.
Any thoughts would be appreciated
(by the way - since just before Christmas we've been through 9 days of being snowed in, flood waters in the house last week - separated by the computer melt down- the new year
has to be better)
Thanks
Dave