Quote Originally Posted by gorbo View Post
Be warned I have travelled this road and had the scars to prove it!

I purchased a PCI and a PCI-E PP cards for my AMD based board and they would not work, strange thing was they only did not work on X axis!

In the end I purchased a Intel based board with the built in port, it has some to do with the voltage the port sends out some ports don't cut it, be warned
Did you install the drivers and config it correctly ? there is more than one driver config for Parallel Ports with PCI / PCI-E cards this may help anyone struggling to understand SPP / EPP / ECP HowStuffWorks "How Parallel Ports Work"
Mike