PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
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PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
OK I have a Biostar a68n-5000, it has on board Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT but they seem to be useless, I've got new com port serial parallel header cable connection installed but I can't get any data from or to them. Here's the real kick in the pants Windows XP & Windows 10 see the on board Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT and both Windows say they are working but any way, anyone here have any ideas what I can do to fix this? Oh the "UBS to Com/LPT" isn't going to work for what I need. Thanks! Oh, I do have latest drivers for my pc.
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
PC software set to use COM1 ?
Motherboard COM ports disabled (if any) ?
Try renaming the port to COM10 and try again ?
Motherboard COM ports disabled (if any) ?
Try renaming the port to COM10 and try again ?
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
Yes, and I've changed the PC software setting to match Com port when com port are changed to Com5,Com4 or Com 2.
No Motherboard Com ports are disabled.
Yes, I've tried Com5,Com4 and Com 2.
Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
Probably wont matter, but try a lot higher number like COM10..
I had issues on my XP setup years ago where failed installs of IO card causes like all the COM ports to not work, even though there was no ports listed in device manager. Sometimes it would refuse to even let me use anything below COM10, even though nothing was listed as using them. I ended up just renaming the port to COM10 and it worked after that.
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
The app only use com1 to com8 but I did try out com8 with no luck.
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Baud rate issues ? duff card ?
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
I'll look into Baud rates tomorrow, I have to get ready for work now but Thanks!
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
Changing the baud rates didn't do anything, I'll have to look at other options. Thanks anyway!
Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
Had a issue like this before with some old Eprom programmers, it was found to be something to do with port polling and how it changed after Windows XP SP2 we tried everything, PCI cards, adaptors, convertors, ended up just keeping a old PC just for that job since it was found it was the OS being silly.
Might be worth a try if you tried everything else?
Might be worth a try if you tried everything else?
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Re: PC isses Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT
That makes sense, I've did some more homework on the app it doesn't work with ePCI cards to Port COM & Printer Parallel Port LPT so I'm going have to look into setting up an old laptop just for this app.DrF wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:57 pm Had a issue like this before with some old Eprom programmers, it was found to be something to do with port polling and how it changed after Windows XP SP2 we tried everything, PCI cards, adaptors, convertors, ended up just keeping a old PC just for that job since it was found it was the OS being silly.
Might be worth a try if you tried everything else?