I have a software dongle for a rip program that looks for the dongle on LPT1
the computer I have didn't come with a parallel port I installed a pci parallel card and it doesn't see the dongle any ideas. I changed the settings of the card to make it LPT1 but that hasn't helped. PC is an HP Celeron 3.47ghz with 2 gigs ram running XP Pro
DaveBaldwin is correct. Programs that used LPT dongles usually wanted to do down-on-the-metal direct I/O to the hardware addresses. XP frowns on that, for obvious reasons.
Double-check the hardware settings on your PCI card, just in case. These can be confirmed through Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Ports (Com and LPT), right-click on Printer Port LPT1, look on the Properties tab.
If the manufacturer can't help you, and you must use this program, you'll have to drop back to a previous version of Windows with looser hardware security, probably Windows 98 or Windows 95.
Older dongles go straight to the LPT hardware. The PCI card may be 'logically' LPT1 but it won't look like the old hardware LPT1. I don't know how to get it to work on a machine like yours without an update from the manufacturer of the dongle or the software.
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Double-check the hardware settings on your PCI card, just in case. These can be confirmed through Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, Ports (Com and LPT), right-click on Printer Port LPT1, look on the Properties tab.
LPT1: I/O port 0x378, IRQ 7
See the comments on XP and LPT cards here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/120787-45-need-change-lpt1-settings
If the manufacturer can't help you, and you must use this program, you'll have to drop back to a previous version of Windows with looser hardware security, probably Windows 98 or Windows 95.