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General Mach Discussion / Re: adding second parallel port?

« on: January 23, 2006, 11:28:57 PM »

thats exactly my problem! 

in device manager, it gives me ranges:  CC00 and DD00. 

ill try your suggestion and see if it works, thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: adding second parallel port?

« on: January 21, 2006, 01:39:12 AM »

It should work, where are you getting the input range numbers from? Device manager?

im getting the input range numbers from the device manager, yes.  ill post a screenshot of the screen tomorrow. 

also, I found when installing  a parallel port that it auto assigned it to Lpt3.  after assigning it to Lpt2( in device manager)and checking the resources in there, all was well.  There were drivers to install too.

..You should see more in the "range" under the resources tab.... rather than a single location.

...Though, maybe I haven't had enough experience with different cards....I did have one older model that looked liked a card embedded with a dozen mini "kit-kat" bars that came with my scanner.  It didn't work on my newer PC.

i tried setting it as LPT3 and LPT2, but the ranges stayed the same.  thats just what im getting, is a range. 

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General Mach Discussion / adding second parallel port?

« on: January 19, 2006, 10:25:03 PM »

i just got done troubleshooting my setup and found out that my parallel port is trashed.  i only have 2 working pins.  i verified this with a scope and another computer. 

anyways.  i have 2 options...  1) use a secondary parallel port, or 2) get a new motherboard.  i already have a PCI parallel port card which i just bought.  however, i found instructions in the tutorial section, but it doesnt seem to work.  the input range i have in the resources tab says like CC00 or something.  its not standard like 0x387 or whatever.  mach2 wont accept that it says in there...

i also cannot change its settings.  is there a way to override this?  or maybe is there another address i could use?  OR, an alternate driver that would let me change the settings?  this is just a generic parallel card from compusa.

thanks!