I typically stay away from Dell PC's. I always have problems with them.. I'm surprised to read that a new PC doesn't support Win-98. Have you / can you try Win-NT 4?
I can't understand why Win2K would be different with a newer PC. The OS assigns the base address of the parallel port to a typical value of 0378h. This is for LPT1. My question would be: Are you having problems with LPT1 or do you have a PCI-based Parallel Port (to add ports)? If so, you cannot change the base address with Win-2K or Win-XP which assigns a PCI base address to the port. Can you provide more details as what exactly changes between the 2 PC's. Other than the motherboard and typical hardware (of course). How is the parallel port configured? What are you doing with it, etc? Any information that can help figure out a solution. Regards, JLV
