How to get Win 2k to see isa slots???

[trez2k3]

i just installed win2kon my old comp and it cant see my 2 isa slots. is there a patch for this???

 

[trez2k3]

i just went to ms website and couldnt find anything Help me!

 

[HansXP]

You mean it can't see the cards in the ISA slots?

 

[trez2k3]

well i got some old card that gives an extra slot so that i can have two printers hooed up (ltp2) but when i go to install the 2nd printer it says erro unable to conect with printer?

 

[HansXP]

Does the second parallel port show up in device manager?

 

[trez2k3]

no only the first one

 

[trez2k3]

anyone

 

[trez2k3]

bump

 

[aircooled]

You stumped me... I just installed an ISA USrobotics 56k modem in the neighbors win2k box and it was detected and installed during boot-up.

You're not going to "see" the slots without a device installed. And if it's an older non-plug-n-play device, you will need the proper win2k driver and use "add/remove hardware" from control panel.

 

[Nosferatu]

Sometimes you need to reserve IRQS in the Bios for legacy devices. This should enable the devices to coexist with your PCI stuff. Then do the hardware add/install thing as suggested above and you should be set.

 

[trez2k3]

ok thanks for the replies i had to go into the bios and tweak some stuff now its working.