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Anybody got any ideas what's going on....

A server on a small windows network has three parallel printers
attatched. One on the original LPT1 and two more on a further card.

When the server is booted with the printers turned on it will
often blow the fuse in the servers plug. 5amp. The blow
happens at the post test stage. 

With a spike protector (simple plug) fitted to the computer acting as the 
server the computers power supply will trip out. At other times everything
works correctly making tracing and removal of units a problem.

One printer is a deskjet , one a HP4L and the other an ancient
daisy wheel. I havn't been to the site but my initial thoughts
are that the problem is associated with the port initialisation
which I understand sets bits high on some machines.

I can imagine that this output is getting grounded but I would
have expected this to cook the I/O cards after a while.

............ any advice.......

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