[rogerg (Roger)]

Originally Posted by higginsdj

You are logged into the PC as adminstrator aren't you?

Yeap.

Originally Posted by higginsdj

Have you tried pulling the 2 PCI Cards, reboot, then put the cards back in and see if the port assignements change? In your original install, did you have the PCI cards in place when you did the original install or were the PCI cards added after?

No, I will try that, thanks. I will see if there are other free slots to move them to as well. However it is concerning that in BIOS the address ranges for the PCI slots seem to match those assigned to the resources of the ports, and all the PCI slots have high resource ranges in BIOS.

Originally Posted by higginsdj

Re the SBIG drivers, I found the latest version of the SBIG Drive Checker did NOT install the parallel drivers by default. I had to check an "LP" flag on the driver install dialogue before it would do this.

Yeap, noted, I have the latest and have installed the LPT version using the checkbox. At first I had an old version of the updater and that didn't have the checkbox option for LPT.

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

Did your add on cards have install discs where the address could be specified. If so they may not be changeable from the device manager.

Originally I had the PC built by the shop with the cards in there. I don't know in what sequence they installed them in the setup process. I am in communication with the shop but hasn't solved the problem yet.

There's no install disks that came with the cards And I haven't found anything other than the MosChip drivers on the web (no configuration software).

Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes

It appears that when you reinstalled your HDD the resources were realocated to ports other than the original. to fix this you will need to open the control panel and select device manager-hardware- resources and select the standard LPT and COM port addresses in
port settings- advanced

LPT1 should be 0378-037F
COM1 should be (COM1) 03F8-03FF
If these ports are allocated to something else you will need to change this first.

I think you have already tried this without success but it is the way I did it. My options were not greyed out

Yeah, I wish my options were not grayed out.

You have given me one other idea here - seeing if I can find anything that is using the desired range of the LPT1 and see if I can change that to a different range, perhaps meaning the LPT1 card might take up that range automatically.

Originally Posted by sheeny

Hmmm... I see you've already been on my thread at Software Bisque support, so unfortunately I don't think I can offer anything else.

I assume your camera is USB?

I hope you get it sorted soon.

Al.

My camera is LPT, not USB I have considered upgrading the camera to LPT but at US$1000 it's a hefty upgrade price (not saying it isn't justified for the work they have to do).

I hope I have it sorted too Not sure though, not looking good right now!!

Thank you everyone for your help. I will try moving the cards tonight and rebooting without them etc.

Thanks,
Roger.