Help me getting PCS100 to work in Vista

Baldin · December 28, 2008, 1:47pm

Have been a happy owner of a PCS100 for several years now.

I just changed to a new Dell (Inspiron 530) PC with Vista Home, and I simply cant get the scope to work.

I have installed the newest PC LAB 200 SE v. 3.08.
I have set the exe files to compatibility mode (XP SP2) and I have run the driver install program.

My LPT port is an extra IDE board (as the DELL does not come with parallel interface anumore!!) (MosChip Technology) and the PCS100 is connected to LPT2. I have chosen address 0278h, but have also tried the others.

It says no HW response …

Has anyone actually got this device to work in Vista???
Can anyon help me … Please

Thanks in advance and best regards Baldin

VEL436 · January 7, 2009, 1:36pm

What is the model number of your parallel port board?
What other addresses does it support under Vista (driver)?

Baldin · January 14, 2009, 7:30pm

It’s a MosChip PCI Parallel port.

It seems to be able to handle from LPT2 and up to LPT8
In windows LPT1 is listed as MosChip Unusable Parallel Port (LPT1)

I have a printer (HP LeserJet 2100) on the second port LPT3, and it works without problems.
I have also tryed to switch the two around to if it would be a HW problem with the parallel port card, but the printer also worked there without problems.

Thanks in advance

VEL436 · January 15, 2009, 7:25am

Have you checked the port I/O range setting under the Resources tab in the Ports section of the Device Manager?

Baldin · January 18, 2009, 11:03am

Is there an e-mail address I can use, then I’ll take screen shots of all settings and send …
Thanks in advance

My address is:

sensibleaudio at gmail dot com

VEL436 · January 19, 2009, 11:29am

You can send the screenshots to e-mail address:
vel255 at diinoweb dot com

chaas · February 27, 2009, 10:47pm

I’m having the same problem - using the MCS9835 PCI parallel port to connect to a PCS100. Has there been any success making these work together?

VEL436 · February 28, 2009, 8:09am

First you have to go to the Device Manager and check the I/O address of the LPT port.

In the previous case, after getting these screenshot images the solution was found:

The solution was:
“You have to enter the LPT address D700 to the startup screen of the
PCLab2000SE.
Just click the ‘378’ and replace it with D700.”

chaas · February 28, 2009, 7:47pm

That got it!

Thanks

john_lenfr · July 22, 2009, 5:55pm

Hi, I’m using a K8000 board.

Adress of my parallel card is “DF00 - DF07”

How can I change it in Visual Basic because in the libraries I can choose only “378” (SelectI2CprinterPort(1)), “0BC” (SelectI2CprinterPort(0)) and “278” (SelectI2CprinterPort(2))

[code]SelectI2CprinterPort

Syntax
PROCEDURE SelectI2CprinterPort(Printer_no: Longint);

Parameter
Printer_no: Value between 0 and 2 given by the printer port to which the interface card is connected.
0: printer port address is 0BC (hex)
1: printer port address is 378 (hex), usually the address of LPT1
2: printer port address is 278 (hex), usually the address of LPT2

Result
Communication between the PC and the K8000 card will occur via the selected LPT port address.

Description
The printer port to be used must be specified at the start of your programme in order to run the interface card so that the communication routines are carried out correctly. The default designation is LPT1, but this can be changed using this procedure.

Example
BEGIN
SelectI2CprinterPort(1);
// LPT1 address on mainboard is set to 378
END; [/code]

Is it ok if I put:

SetI2CprinterPortAddress($DF00); // LPT address on mainboard is set to DF00)

Thanks for answer

VEL436 · July 23, 2009, 8:04am

You have to use the DLL procedure SetI2CprinterPortAddress of the updated DLL.
You can download the updated K8D.DLL and K8E.EXE from:
vel255.diinoweb.com/files/K8000_new.zip
There is document included to this zip file.

Copy both of the new files to Windows’ SYSTEM32 folder and to your application folder.

Usage (if the LPT port address is e.g. DF00):
In Visual Basic VB6.0: SetI2CprinterPortAddress &hDF00