I think their tech guy may have been blowing smoke, Paul(s) - I have a StarTech PEX1P PCIe Parallel Adapter Card - 1 Port, SPP, EPP, ECP (S262-8032) that I just got from Tigerdirect for a new Win7 PC. While I haven't tried to use it with the antenna switching control side of DX4WIN, it works fine doing the same job for N1MM Logger, which also needs to know the port address.
If your new machine is a 64-bit Win 7 machine, as even nearly the cheapest Dells may be now, then you may need a different port driver. In any case, it should be installed in the same folder as your DX4WIN executable, so that definitely is one place to look for a solution. Otherwise, I need to defer to Paul on the driver issue and how it is integrated with DX4WIN. 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 5/16/2012 9:02 AM, Paul van der Eijk wrote: > Forwarding message for VE7BZ > > --Paul, KK4HD > > The day finally came when the old XP machine that has powered DX4WIN for > so many years died -- and it was replaced with a Win7 box. While I have > most things restored, I am stuck with an LPT port problem. > > I thought I could simply install a PCI (Express) LPT port card and get > going once again, but such is not the case due to the manner in which > Win7 or the card -- I'm not sure exactly which handles the port > addressing. The card in question is a StarTech model called PEX1P and > according to their tech support person it's not mappable -- so they > could not tell me the real port address. > > When I look at the card in Device Manager the Resource tab tells me the > I/O Range is D010 - D017 and D000 - D003. Again according to StarTech, > the only card they can give a real address for is a mappable model such > as their PCIPM card -- but it's not available in PCI (Express) -- only > straight PCI. > > One more thing. I am running DX4WIN v8.05, but when I run the > 'lptdriver.exe' file from within the Drivers folder the executable > always suggests installing the program in a folder labeled c:\dx4w803 -- > not 805. I have restarted the computer according to the instructions > given when installing on a 64-bit system but DX4WIN always starts with > an error message saying it can't find the LPT port. > > So -- yes I need some help to sort out the problem. If you've had > experience with this issue I'd sure appreciate your insight and or > suggestions. > > 73 de Paul, VE7BZ > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
