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fueldump
28th Apr 2003, 19:24
A "friend" of mine thought he was doing me a favour by cleaning up my PC. Unfortuanatly he has somehow deleted the LPT1 port for my printer. I can now not use the printer. It is defaulting to LPT3 which is a virtual infrared port.
Could someone be as kind to explain how I can reinstall the LPT1
Thanks in advance
Fueldump.
Ronbmy
28th Apr 2003, 20:32
You don't state the o/s so this is for windoze 98..
Start/settings/Control panel
Add new Hardware. Next, Next,
No. I want to select, next, next
goes through detection process.
At this point it may find lpt1. If it does follow the instructions
else
next - brings up a list of device types
scroll down to ports(Com & LPT) & highlight it
next
Select the one you want & follow the instructions.
For Win98 you should need the system cd to complete this.
ck4707
28th Apr 2003, 20:40
Assuming you are using Windows, go to control panel, add/remove hardware and re-install lpt1 from there.
Hope this helps
CK
fueldump
28th Apr 2003, 23:33
Thanx guys I have reinstalled it.:ok: