Postby me@work » Thu Nov 08, 2012 14:11
I would assume that there are no parallel port drivers available at any hardware system manufacturer in the world. These generic drivers come with the OS itself. This story might be different for vendors of specific parallel port plug-in cards, of course.
If the driver did not load, then there probably is some kind of issue with the required resources (I/O ports, interrupt, ...). You might want to try to test again after removal of any add-in card, and after setting the BIOS to its default settings.
Hope this helps...