yet another parallel port issue

hi guys

done a ton of fresh installs and keep running up against the same problem ver 2.8.2 is not recognising the parallel port properly. im using a dell optiplex 780 with a pci card. ive updated the hal with correct addresses and included both "in" and "out but nothing . ive tried all bios options with the settings for the inbuilt port too just in case that affected anything?
lspci -vvv result below for the card in question.

04:02.0 Parallel controller: Device 1c00:2170 (rev 0f) (prog-if 01 [BiDir])
    Subsystem: Device 1c00:2170
    Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
    Region 0: I/O ports at dcf0
    Region 1: I/O ports at dcf8

Any help would be great thank you

just did a grep on the port. Results from this does not work either.

paul@debian:~$ sudo cat /proc/ioports | grep parport
0378-037a : parport0
037b-037f : parport0

well stupidly the onboard port is working? go figure?

I obviously just needed to voice the problem out loud.

Hi Tommy yes i did try those but to no avail. It dosent matter as the onboard fired into life for me and works fine on 0378. I know the card works as it was used in another machine previously, just dosent like this machine.
The machine im using is an old office pc and the bios is locked off from being updated (can acces the general bios stuff). It is way out of date which i suspect is the problem.

Some times a bad slot. Have you tried removing and reinserting the card a few times?