This is after I uninstalled the port in device manager, turned off the computer (not a restart), turned o the computer, went into the root menu/integrated devices/parallel port and went through the options of 'off,at,ps/2/epp,ecp' stopped at EPP and saved changes and exited. When windows opened, I tried to open add hardware under control panel, but it said I had to wait as it was already installing hardware. Low and behold, the hardware it was installing was the ECP port.......again. So, I again tried to scan for hardware changes and got nothing.
On a side note though....While in the bios I saw that under the option of ecp port, it asks if I would like the DMA channel on or off??
Is that of any significance?