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A7V266-MX mobo refuses to detect hardware lock on printer port
I a using a Asus A7V266-MX mother board with an Athalon 2400+ AMD
processor, I have a strange problem. For one of my softwares I have been given a hardware lock which is plugged to my Parallel port (Printer port) and only if the hardware lock is plugged in the software works, it means the software searches for the lock on the printer port and proceeds to work, the system fails to software work and its not able to find the hardware lock, its a brand new mother board with the processor and the printer port works perfectly well when a printer is connected to it. I believe there is some IRQ setting that is required , i've also tried to set the parallel port IRQ to IRQ7 which is normally assigned to parallel port but that too dosent work. Can some on help me out this problem . Thanks for reading this. Rajesh VU2RPS emailto |
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In article , wrote: I a using a Asus A7V266-MX mother board with an Athalon 2400+ AMD processor, I have a strange problem. For one of my softwares I have been given a hardware lock which is plugged to my Parallel port (Printer port) and only if the hardware lock is plugged in the software works, it means the software searches for the lock on the printer port and proceeds to work, the system fails to software work and its not able to find the hardware lock, its a brand new mother board with the processor and the printer port works perfectly well when a printer is connected to it. I believe there is some IRQ setting that is required , i've also tried to set the parallel port IRQ to IRQ7 which is normally assigned to parallel port but that too dosent work. Can some on help me out this problem . Thanks for reading this. Rajesh VU2RPS emailto Check with the dongle manufacturer, to see if a particular parallel port mode is required. Try a groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". HTH, Paul This dongle manufacturer is no more in existance and I am on my own, I tried the groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". and as per their suggestion I had to config the bios parallel port to "Normal mode" and no luck here too. I have emaild ASUS support chaps hope to get some help from them . In the meanwhile I am still looking into groups for help. Thanks again Rajesh VU2RPS |
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(Paul) wrote in message ... In article , wrote: I a using a Asus A7V266-MX mother board with an Athalon 2400+ AMD processor, I have a strange problem. For one of my softwares I have been given a hardware lock which is plugged to my Parallel port (Printer port) and only if the hardware lock is plugged in the software works, it means the software searches for the lock on the printer port and proceeds to work, the system fails to software work and its not able to find the hardware lock, its a brand new mother board with the processor and the printer port works perfectly well when a printer is connected to it. I believe there is some IRQ setting that is required , i've also tried to set the parallel port IRQ to IRQ7 which is normally assigned to parallel port but that too dosent work. Can some on help me out this problem . Thanks for reading this. Rajesh VU2RPS emailto Check with the dongle manufacturer, to see if a particular parallel port mode is required. Try a groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". HTH, Paul This dongle manufacturer is no more in existance and I am on my own, I tried the groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". and as per their suggestion I had to config the bios parallel port to "Normal mode" and no luck here too. I have emaild ASUS support chaps hope to get some help from them . In the meanwhile I am still looking into groups for help. Thanks again Rajesh VU2RPS Hi Paul, I have installed a new parallel port pci card to the system and in the bios I have disabled the onboard parallel port, even then the sysyem refuses to detect the dongle ,the result is the same even after enabling the onboard parallal port. The catalogue that came with the additional PCI card that the card should be IRQ 10 but I am unaware as to where do I do this setting, during installation of the pci card it never did ask me to specify any IRQ settings. Could you or anyone who is aware of this , please help me out in this situation . Thanks Rajesh |
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wrote: wrote in message . com... (Paul) wrote in message ... In article , wrote: I a using a Asus A7V266-MX mother board with an Athalon 2400+ AMD processor, I have a strange problem. For one of my softwares I have been given a hardware lock which is plugged to my Parallel port (Printer port) and only if the hardware lock is plugged in the software works, it means the software searches for the lock on the printer port and proceeds to work, the system fails to software work and its not able to find the hardware lock, its a brand new mother board with the processor and the printer port works perfectly well when a printer is connected to it. I believe there is some IRQ setting that is required , i've also tried to set the parallel port IRQ to IRQ7 which is normally assigned to parallel port but that too dosent work. Can some on help me out this problem . Thanks for reading this. Rajesh VU2RPS emailto Check with the dongle manufacturer, to see if a particular parallel port mode is required. Try a groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". HTH, Paul This dongle manufacturer is no more in existance and I am on my own, I tried the groups.google.com search on "dongle parallel port mode". and as per their suggestion I had to config the bios parallel port to "Normal mode" and no luck here too. I have emaild ASUS support chaps hope to get some help from them . In the meanwhile I am still looking into groups for help. Thanks again Rajesh VU2RPS Hi Paul, I have installed a new parallel port pci card to the system and in the bios I have disabled the onboard parallel port, even then the sysyem refuses to detect the dongle ,the result is the same even after enabling the onboard parallal port. The catalogue that came with the additional PCI card that the card should be IRQ 10 but I am unaware as to where do I do this setting, during installation of the pci card it never did ask me to specify any IRQ settings. Could you or anyone who is aware of this , please help me out in this situation . Thanks Rajesh If you look in the manual, there is a BIOS page called "IRQ Resources" and it can be used to reserve an IRQ. But I'm not sure that is necessary, as the BIOS could just as easily assign an IRQ for you. Can you test the parallel port with some other device ? When I looked in Google to try to answer your question originally, I saw some mention of dongles burning out, so maybe this dongle has quit on you. If the parallel ports (either the original one or the new PCI card one) are tested as working with a printer or some other device, that may indicate that the dongle is no longer working. I find the mention of dongles burning out to be a little strange. Maybe they have a fuse on them inside ? If the construction of the dongle is monolithic (potted to prevent reverse engineering), it may not be possible to determine anything about the circuitry inside. HTH, Paul |
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