Kentucky Fisherman
Junior Member
I flashed the BIOS on my FIC PA-2013 in order to upgrade my CPU to a K6-III 450+. After doing that, I got a port conflict message upon bootup and indeed have been having frequent lockups. I've fiddled and diddled with my COM port and IRQ settings to no avail.
Somewhere in the midst of this, I uninstalled my printer, thinking it might help diagnose or resole the IRQ conflicts. When I re-installed the printer, it doesn't give me LPT1 as an option, just COM1 or File. I do have a ZIP drive connected to the parallel port and the printer was previously chained off the ZIP, and they both worked fine. The system still recognizeds the ZIP drive and can access it, so I assume from that that LPT1 still does exist, right?
So what do I try next? Maybe totally remove the ZIP drive and then try to reinstall the printer to see if it will then recognize and connect to LPT1?
Somewhere in the midst of this, I uninstalled my printer, thinking it might help diagnose or resole the IRQ conflicts. When I re-installed the printer, it doesn't give me LPT1 as an option, just COM1 or File. I do have a ZIP drive connected to the parallel port and the printer was previously chained off the ZIP, and they both worked fine. The system still recognizeds the ZIP drive and can access it, so I assume from that that LPT1 still does exist, right?
So what do I try next? Maybe totally remove the ZIP drive and then try to reinstall the printer to see if it will then recognize and connect to LPT1?
