Testing LPT1 with a loopback plug

[gml-47]

Hi,

I have a customer with an IOmega zip parallel port drive, and he has been connecting the drive with power on. He got an error message one day he connected, and the port has been unavailable since. (The drive works, tested on a different system)

I suspect the port is damaged as I could not get a printer to be detected (WIN XP Pro on a Dell laptop).

Will BIT Pro with a loopback plug be able to test the port? Does BIT use its own driver or Windows built-in driver?

Thanks,

//gml

[David (PassMark)]

Yes, you can test a parallel port using BurnInTest. You might not be able to tell exactly what went wrong, but it is a good go / no go test.

We don't use Windows for communicating to the port. We do direct port I/O.