When using a parallel port PIC programmer what parallel card do people use to protect the mobo port?. I can't find any ISA or PCI parallel cards for sale. I've found plenty of multi-IO cards but none of them allow the com/ide/fdd ports to be disabled AFAIK thanks Mike W -- Life is dark and empty for the PIC developer without VirtualBreadboard go look at it... www.virtualbreadboard.com