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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! with LPT3 port

« on: January 02, 2008, 05:04:23 PM »

Hood the resources tab is not there, for this device. Its there for my other port but not the pci port, I have general,Port settings,driver,details thats it. What happened to the good old days of setting jumpers. I beginning to think this pci card is not worth having.


I've been reading some of the other posts about pci parallel cards, it seams that what i need is not there. Im not new to this stuff, But this ones got me stumped.

by the way hood , i want to try your sereen set for the touch screen on the downloads page, any problems
Thanks again J P

p.s.   I think im going with a board from rodgersmachine



Here are some of the responses from Startech support.



 

-----Original Message-----
From: Support [mailto:support@startech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:25 PM
To: J Pieszala
Subject: RE: Support E-mail From Web Site - PCI1P

 

Dear J:

Thank you for your inquiry! We are sorry to hear about your technical difficulty.  Unfortunately, the drivers do not have anything to do with the resource assignment of PCI cards, they are assigned by Windows automatically.  The only way to change them would be through Windows, but by default, this ability is disabled by Microsoft for security/safety reasons.  Technically, if you were to bypass this and change the resource assignments, it will work, but it is not supported by StarTech.com. 

If you have any further questions, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Ray Aoki
Technical Support Team
StarTech.com
Tel: 519 455-9675
Tel: 800 265-1844
Fax: 519 455-9425


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Can the bypass be done in the bios or is it directly in windows, and do you have a board that jumpers can be set to address 278 or forced to a specific address
Thanks JP


Dear J:

Through the BIOS you may be able to change the IRQ assignment, but the memory I/O range will be Windows.  Since PCI is plug and play, resource assignments cannot be forced by the card or drivers.

If you have any further questions, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Ray Aoki
Technical Support Team
StarTech.com

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! with LPT3 port

« on: January 02, 2008, 02:43:04 PM »

Thanks for the reply,  Hood

Im not sure most of the time myself. But anyway the cards address in the device manager is Location: Location 1028 (PCI EPP/ ECP Parallel Port 1). The only thing i can change in the drvice manager is the Lpt 3 To Lpt2.  Lpt 1 is my on Mother board and is adressed as 378-037F Which is controlling my step ad direction outputs and a homing switches and it is working prefectly.  In Mach 3 I tryed adding the Location 1028 In a few different ways Example 0x1028 ,1028 L1028 . Mach did not have output to this port no mater what i tryed.  I need this other port to control 5 relays for 5 drills that are on the machine.


 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! with LPT3 port

« on: January 02, 2008, 11:30:17 AM »

Hi,
       Im trying to add a second parallel port to my comp. im using a Pci1p epp/ecp Parallel pci card from Startech.com. There are no jumpers on the board to address it, the board was installed and it has a pci address, i can't assign a 278h to it in the device manager. I tryed adding the adreess in the box on the second port set up on Mach3 , but it did not work. I tyred changeing it in the bios, but again no option. If any one can help let me know.
Thanks jp