I'm looking for any help ... any help at all! This has been going on a little while now and is frustrating...
My observatory PC died a few weeks back (HDD failure). Since new install (replacement HDD) I haven't been able to connect my Parallel/LPT port ST7. Here's some details.
The PC has two PCI cards in it, each having two COM and one LPT port. Windows lists the cards as being from "MosChip Semiconductor Technology Ltd", on "PCI Multi-IO Controller".
There are 2 LPT and 4 COM ports listed in Device Manager. The COM ports function fine.
The LPT ports have abnormal resource allocations, and I believe this might be where the problem lies, as CCDSoft expects more normal LPT port resources. The resources listed against my COM ports are:
LPT1:
I/O Range 1058 - 105F
I/O Range 1050 - 1057
LPT2:
I/O Range 1030 - 1037
I/O Range 1028 - 102F
CCDSoft only allows for 3 character ranges to be entered, none of which the above fit.
Anyone know anything more about this? how to resolve this? or how to change the resources of the ports in windows?
I have tried looking in BIOS, I've tried in Device Manager - the checkbox/options for "Use automatic settings" in device manager are grayed out, unable to be changed.
CCDSoft and SBIG drivers are up to date.
And just to clarify once again - The ST7 could connect fine on my previous install of windows. In fact when I first got this PC a year or so ago I didn't even consider this kind of problem, it just worked!. Btw, Win7.
Thanks,
Roger.