I have a computer that needs to use three parallel ports for a very special purpose. The ports consist of the main port featured in its motherboard, and two additional ports provided by a PCI (not PCIExpress) card.
Anyway, for very specific reasons, those cards need to be installed within the range of ISA legacy addresses. These traditionally are 278, 378 and 3BC. The port belonging to the motherboard poses no problem. I can easily configure said address through BIOS during startup.
The problem is that when I go to the computer's device manager (OS is Win7, 32 bits) and try to change the other two ports' base addresses they are shown, but the dialog box won't allow me to adjust them manually. (I can't post a picture of said dialog at this moment). The box does show an "automatic configuration" checkbox which is checked, but it's grayed out and disabled.
Is there another way I could change those addresses? Say, maybe through the registry? The card's drivers have nothing in them that could help me either.
@MrSoftware
Anyway, for very specific reasons, those cards need to be installed within the range of ISA legacy addresses. These traditionally are 278, 378 and 3BC. The port belonging to the motherboard poses no problem. I can easily configure said address through BIOS during startup.
The problem is that when I go to the computer's device manager (OS is Win7, 32 bits) and try to change the other two ports' base addresses they are shown, but the dialog box won't allow me to adjust them manually. (I can't post a picture of said dialog at this moment). The box does show an "automatic configuration" checkbox which is checked, but it's grayed out and disabled.
Is there another way I could change those addresses? Say, maybe through the registry? The card's drivers have nothing in them that could help me either.
@MrSoftware