Service Control Manager Error

[mayamaniac]

I'm getting this event error on bootup in win2003. Does anyone know what's causing this error or what's this service called in the Services window? And can someone explain what this service does and if it's ok to disable it.

This is the what it says in the Event Viewer:

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Event Type: Error

Event Source: Service Control Manager

Event Category: None

Event ID: 7000

Date: 

Time: 

User: 

Computer:

Description:

The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Thanks for any help.

[John Veteran]

how long has this been happening? it could be a conflict between the HAL and your chipset. check for new chipset drivers (Y)

[mayamaniac]

it has happenned for a while, but since I don't reboot the server often, I never really looked into it. And the OS runs fine, I haven't noticed anything odd, except this message pops up everytime I boot up. I already have the latest drivers for my mobo. Since this is a problem with the parallel port, I wonder if disabling the parallel port in the device manager would solve this? I dont use the parallel port at all so should I just disable it? Any other suggestions??

[John Veteran]

you can try disabling it, but i've had something like this, that for whatever reason, wouldn't go away even when i disabled the device...

[mayamaniac]

oh well, I'll just ignore it for now. I just installed a new HD so had to reboot a few times, that's how the error annoyed me. The computer won't be rebooting again for a long time, so I guess i can just ignore it. Thanks anyway. ;)