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Bart
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      01-09-2010
Greetings,

I'm having a lot of trouble to get my old Parallel Genius ColorPageEP
Scanner working on a virtual W98SE machine. The thing is that this scanner
works perfectly on REAL W98SE machines with the driver I'm using so I guess
there's gotta be something wrong at the VM settings. The host runs Windows7
64 and this scanner, as amazing as it sounds, used to work perfectly on Vista
32 with Win2000 drivers.

The resources I'm using at the HOST parallel port are:
Parallel Port Mode (BIOS): EPP 1.9
I/O Range: 0378-037F (the same range set on VM Settings, of course)
IRQ: 7

Once I'm on Virtual W98SE, all the settings above the same.

I'm kinda confused with the "Port Settings" tab btw. The "Filter Resource
Method" is set to "Use any interrupt assigned to the port" and the "Enable
legacy PnP detection" was left unmarked. I tryed fooling around with these
settings but none of them made the scanner work on W98SE.

Before starting the VM i'm shutting down the "Printer Spooler" service as
mentioned somewhere here so I guess this is not the real problem. It seems to
me there's something keeping the LPT port "locked" on Win7!

Regards.
 
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