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Server board with parallel port + driver for Windows Server 2008 R2

CBurt1
Beginner
‎08-17-2011 01:38 AM
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Does Intel produce a motherboard equipped with an onbard parallel port for which there is a driver for Windows Server 2008 R2 ?

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Daniel_O_Intel
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‎08-22-2011 02:27 PM
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Unfortunately, the parallel ports fell out of popularity before 2008. I think your best bet is an add-in parallel port card.

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CBurt1
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‎08-22-2011 06:39 PM
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Thanks for the add in card suggestion. That was the conclusion I had come to.

There are several such cards on the market. A very few have a driver for Server 2008 and only one has a driver for Server 2008 R2. Guess how much it costs :-( .

Mightn't Intel find it had expanded usefully the market for their desktop boards (those equipped with an onboard parallel port) were Intel to market the boards as capable of virtualising a parallet port based print server? How time consuming can it be to produce for the onboard parallel port a driver for Server 2008 R2?

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