Q? Did you hook up your lp2 card to a device first?
A - No, just fitted it and installed the drivers.
Q. Is your enable plug and play device checked on?
A - Yes.
Q. Did you manually set your card to lpt2? mine comes up as lpt3, but i change it.
A - mine came up as LPT2 anyway, but this can be changed - I don't think this matters as mach3 cannot be ordered to look for an LPT number, just a hex address..
Q. My lowest hexidecimal address is in the programs, acc, sys tool, sys info, hardware, i/O area: And it is E080-E08f. but in device manager it says ec00. Is my card not compatible?
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A - Try both. The address Device manager gave me worked first time. I tested the card out by setting mach3 to autodetect a signal for X++ (ports& pins - inputs - automatically detect inputs) which is lazy but effective as it will pick up anything it sees changing. Or, to eliminate hardware gripes, pop a 300 ohm resistor between pin 10 and pin 25 with autodetect on - this should give you a result.
Q. Have you tried the other cards you purchased? ty for the help.
A - np
yes, tried them, they are identical to the one i tried last week and they work perfectly.
Good luck with this one - Whether or not the card is good, let us know and tell us what chipset it uses so we can get it on record. photos if possible