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In article <110574121wnr@raynor.demon.co.uk>
           Jim@raynor.demon.co.uk "C:DEMONSPOOLMAIL" writes:

> I have a 486 dx2 50 with a 250meg hard disk and a NEC GDI laser 
> printer and all has been working very well. Anyway I decided to have 
> another 1 Gig hard drive and a CD drive added by a local shop. 
> To have these fitted I also had to purchase a EIDE Controller, all 
> goes well. The only trouble is now although the hard disks and CD all 
> work well my printer isn't. The paper feed and all software functions 
> work but the print doesn't. All I get on the paper is fairly pretty 
> random patterns.
> I have checked the cable conections and reinstalled the NEC software 
> all to no avail. Has anyone else had this problem, or can anyone give 
> me any advice. Is there any software to check the connection.
> I will take it back to the shop that did the work but I can't do that 
> until next week, if its a quick fix I'd rather do it myself.

The first thing that springs to mind is that you have an EIDE controller 
serial and parallel ports on booard, which is screwing up your existing
setup. I don't understand how you're managing to post this though ... 

If this is the case then all you have to do is disable the additional ports
on the new card


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leo