What is a Parport Device?

[Lisa]

I keep getting this, "Parport: Device has a problem", whenever I run
diagnostic on my HP notebook PC. What is this? Since this started coming up,
my PC is extremely slow now and svchost.exe is killing the processor. Please
help..thanks.

 

[Guest]

Any chance this is a mis-spelled 'Paperport'? Do you have a scanner or
all-in-one printer? Try disconnecting it entirely.

 

[Elmo]

I keep getting this, "Parport: Device has a problem", whenever I run
diagnostic on my HP notebook PC. What is this? Since this started coming up,
my PC is extremely slow now and svchost.exe is killing the processor. Please
help..thanks.

Although I couldn't glean a single theme from the posts, there are many
archived posts on the error:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=Parport+hp+diagnostic&qt_s=Search

Drop the word "diagnostic" from the search and there are a few thousand
posts.

 

[Lisa]

it is parport...

Any chance this is a mis-spelled 'Paperport'? Do you have a scanner or
all-in-one printer? Try disconnecting it entirely.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

it is parport...

It's a shortening of the term "parallel port" and generically refers to
any peripheral (printer, scanner, etc.) that can be connected to a
computer's parallel port.


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[Lisa]

Thanks Bruce,

That is funny because this is a laptop and I don't have a printer parallel
port on it! I guess I'll have to dig deeper a little or give them a call. Of
course calling HP is useless because I know the answer already; do a system
restore!!!

Thanks though..

 

[John John]

Just ignore the error message. See here for a bit more on the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883253

John

 

[Lisa]

Thanks John...that makes sense now!

Just ignore the error message. See here for a bit more on the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883253

John

 

[John John]

You're welcome.

John

Thanks John...that makes sense now!