PCS500 Calibration Hangs

Instruments PC Oscilloscopes and Recorders
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I’m having a problem with calibration of my PCS500. The software (PCLAB2000se) load fine and recognizes the device on the LPT port but the software hangs during calibration and CPU resources are 100%. The only way to get out is to kill the application in the task manager. I have changed the ports setting of LPT1 to the various choices available:

AT
PS/2
EPP
ECP

None of these appears to make a difference.

I’m confident the PC is not the issue (Dell Optiplex GX280; Windows XP SP3) as I had PCLAB2000 (ver 1.3) running on the system. I had several unsucessful calibration attempts, but I upgraded the software to the se version because the application would take several minutes to launch.

Any advise is appreciated.

Thanks.

Jon

2

You may try this: Delete the WinDso.ini from the folder where the PcLab2000SE is installed.
Then try again to run the program.

3

Vel255,

I tried that several times as well but got the same result.

4

This is strange problem.
One workaround to get the scope running is to install the old version of the PcLab2000.

  • calibrate the scope
  • install the new SE version
    The calibration results stay in the WinDso.ini