Hello

The resource settings for my PCI card are in the device manager read
only, because Windows controls it (Plug & Play Card). Exists there is
there way to change the plug & play settings for such a card?

More background information:
I have a PCI Card which is an additional paralell port. It is a plug &
play card and works so far fine. Unfortunately lots of software do only

recoginze the LPT by using the standard adress 378, 2F8 etc. My LPT
port is on another base address 0xDF00. Because it is a plug & play
card I am not able to change the settigns in the device manager.

many thanks in advance

best regards
Mark

Re: Changing the Resources of a PCI Plug & Play Card by Tim

Tim
Sat Nov 18 23:18:26 CST 2006

"joes" <joes@bluewin.ch> wrote:
>
>The resource settings for my PCI card are in the device manager read
>only, because Windows controls it (Plug & Play Card). Exists there is
>there way to change the plug & play settings for such a card?
>
>More background information:
>I have a PCI Card which is an additional paralell port. It is a plug &
>play card and works so far fine. Unfortunately lots of software do only
>recoginze the LPT by using the standard adress 378, 2F8 etc. My LPT
>port is on another base address 0xDF00. Because it is a plug & play
>card I am not able to change the settigns in the device manager.

Nope. There are several problems. First, if you rewrite the BAR register,
the operating system won't know about it, causing problems down the line.
Second, there is already a device on the motherboard answering to the
standard I/O port addresses, and there will be a clash.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.