On Saturday 01 July 2017 18:50:07 Jon Elson wrote: > A guy brought me an HP elite 8300 desktop machine that he > was having trouble getting working with a stepper controller. > After trying a few things with no result, I put a scope on > the parallel port. What I see is a pulse every 33 ms on pin > 1, which is the old parport data strobe. I shut down all > modules such as lp, parport, parport_pc and ppdev, and it is > still doing it. So, some BIOS code or kernel module seems > to be talking to the parallel port card. That is a PCIe > Netmos 9900 chip, which I've used on a bunch of Dell boxes > with no trouble. > > Does anybody have any idea what module might be doing this? > (and, how to turn it off) > I would first look in the bios for likely suspects, but I expect you have, and failing that, see if there is an even newer bios for that board. I've solved odd-ball stuff 3 or 4 times with a bios update.
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