Hello Everyone:
I'm sad and here is my tale of woe. Perhaps some wise man (or woman) can show me the way. A while back my old Gateway PIII 933 Mhz (no ISA slots) died a quiet death. My wife bought it for my birthday back in 1999 and I upgraded it to WinXP Home.
My PC prior to that is a Pentium 233Mhz with ISA slots (I built it myself.) and the HP-IL I/F card works fine and it runs Win98. I thought I could rebuild my dead PIII myself (Ha! I'm so smart!) with a later MotherBoard (MB) and microprocessor (uP) as long as it had an ISA slot for the HP-IL card. Then I could combine my HP-IL card with a new(er) PC and run an OS that is still being supported. I thought I was being so cool. But nooooooo, I get shown that not all PC ISA slots and BIOSes are equal.
I hadn't built a PC since the Pentium 233 but with Google and my Laptop, I could overcome any obstacle. I searched that unspeakable website and found an Intel D845GECL OEM MB which included a P4 2.66 GHz and it has one ISA slot. To get it running, I purchased a P4 heatsink and 2 GBs of RAM. After I got the MB it became obvious that the old PIII power supply didn't have the proper ATX power connectors for a P4 MB so I bought a new PS. Then I found that the Gateway case wasn't built to mount a P4 ATX PS, so instead of messing around with cutting and drilling, I bought a new PC case sans a PS.
This weekend, it was time to build my PC ISA masterpiece. Everything worked and I installed my old XP Home OS with no issues. Last night, I put in the HP-IL card and the Phoenix BIOS hangs at the display screen. AAAAAAAH! I take it out and the box boots like a champ.
I know there isn't much to the card but perhaps the UPnP BIOS doesn't like this card. Any suggestions how I should configure the HP-IL card address to not conflict with the BIOS? Can this card live in harmony with a P4 MB?
Thanks for listening (it's a form of geek therapy for me). It's a fast machine and I like it. Another surprise I ran into was that the BIOS doesn't support a B: drive or a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. Crap! Another idea down the drain!
Gerry