Product Description
This PCI-bus board adds 1 high-speed Enhanced Parallel Port to a PCAmazon.com Product Description
The Lava Computer Parallel-PCI PCI Bus Enhanced Parallel Board, when it came to market, was the first PCI-bus parallel port board in the world. It is fully PCI compliant and takes advantage of the speed and easy configuration of the PCI bus. When it appeared, it almost tripled the speed benchmarks of ISA-bus parallel port cards, as well as offered greater flexibility of configuration. Users were no longer restricted to the three standard parallel port addresses: the Parallel-PCI would automatically select a free address and IRQ during installation, virtually eliminating user error and resource conflicts. … More >>
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I was unable to get it to work with ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition MB. Neither Windows Xp or Windows Vista recognized the card. Returned the card to Amazon. Excellent return procudure.
Update: Replaced with a StarTech PCI1PECP and had the same problem. After further investigation I determined that the card could not physically fully seat into the PCI slot. I loosened the screws connecting the IEEE-1284 plug. This gave it enough play to fully seat and solved the problem. Perhaps this solution might have worked with the LAVA card.
Rating: 1 / 5
Works perfectly… that’s all I care about! My son installed it in a snap. Good price at Amazon!!
Rating: 5 / 5
After trying several cheap parallel port adapters that didn’t work either with my Compaq computer or with my printer (Xerox Docuprint P8), and that didn’t have digitally signed drivers, this adapter finally worked.
Pros:
- Performance
- Ease of installation
- Digitally Signed XP drivers
- Warranty
Cons:
- Price
Rating: 5 / 5
BEWARE! Does not support legacy port addressing (278h, 378H, etc.) in Windows XP/2000 even though they claim to in the product description. Once you open the box and read the manual you’ll find this, in the release notes- “In standard installations of Windows 2000/XP, the I/O address cannot be changed to a legacy address.”
Appears to be marketed under several names, you can recognize it by the claim to support legacy port addresses, and “Up to 3x FASTER than standard ISA or motherboard EPP ports”
Rating: 1 / 5