disabling serial and parallel ports.

[o770]

is it ok to disable them if im not using?
will this be better or worse? why?
thanks.

 

[moonunit]

I've had no troubles without them, for many a month.
It frees up IRQs and a few memory addresses.

 

[Diggrr]

I disable the serial ports in bios, but I can't disable the paralell port or my printer (USB) won't work...go figure.
But you can try it anyway, it won't really harm anything and the worst that can happen is that you may have to reinstall the printer after rebooting and changing the setting back.

And I do enjoy the extra IRQ's.

 

[o770]

well i got something similar. both serial and the parallel ports were disabled when i installed my logitech mouseware driver. the trackman uses the PS/2 port so there should be no problem disabling the COMs. after installing the driver i enabled all the ports in the BIOS (COMs and parallel) and mouseware redetected the mouse as the right version, trackman marble. with the serials disabled it will detect only once as a regular pointing device. everything works just fine but the other way i have the mouse as the trackman marble.