Losing PCI Parallel Ports

[RAYKEN]

I recently reformatted my hard drive, reloaded Win 98, and proceded to reload Creative Sound card. Not realizing I had the Creative 512 Soundblaster card in the computer I loaded the Creative PCI128 Soundblaster card in. Then checking, found I had the Creative PCI 512 sound card in the machine.(Should have TRIPLE checked everything.) I then went into the device manager and proceeded to uninstall the Creative 128 sound card, but instead uninstalled my PCI Parallel port. I have tried everything I know how to do(I have built three computers from scratch)
and still cannot get the port back. The drivers refuse to load for this port through the device manager, or through
DOS, or any other way. I am about to do a low level format
again and start over but hate to do that. Whats my next step? Many thanks!

Ray---rayk7inm62@msn.com

 

[edfair]

You could pull the card, reboot one time to insure everything is clean, then shutdown and reinstall. May , or may not.

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[TekTippy4U]

might want to try Device Man>System Devices>PCI Bus>Settings...under device enumeration.....either BIOS or Hardware is checked.......maybe switch it......
be careful though as the results/adverse effects could be damning

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[edfair]

Or the other hari-kari step, regedit and delete the hkey local machine hardware enum key and take it thru shutdown and reboot a half dozen or so times while it is rebuilding the hardware links.

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