Silverstone LC03v VFD issues

[iamlofi]

i have just Built a LC03v case. the Mother board i have gone for was the Abit AN8 Ultra.

This Mobo has no Parallel connector so i decided to go for a PCI Parallel card. Put the card in fine and installed the Drivers for the PCI card (which seems to be working ok as there are no errors in Device manager).

Next was to hook up the VFD so i hooked power up and plugged in the cable turned on the machine and booted to XP loaded the software that was recomended on silverstone's web site and nothing . . . no display no messages. Nothing at all has been displayed.

Have you guys got any ideas as im getting stressed !

thanks

Andy

 

[OneEleven]

Does the parallel port need to be set up in a specific mode (EPP, ECP, Bi-Directional etc.) or at a specific IO address (378/278 IIRC) do you know?

 

[iamlofi]

i know that it needs to be in EPP but there are no settings that are leeting me set that.

 

[OneEleven]

Ahh that could be the problem. Parallel ports tend to be ECP as default.

Is there a driver/util disk that came with the card - or do you have a link to it

 

[iamlofi]

there was a driver disk that came with it but im at work and thats at home at the moment !!

what i will do is when i get home post up make and link to company.

 

[Jim_Fear]

Normally with addon cards like that after you have the initial bios loading screen there will be another one for the specific device just before you boot into windows, most of them i've seen say "press F2" or something. Do you get anything like that when you turn your machine on?

 

[iamlofi]

jim . . not sure about that one!!

but the card is a Siig PCI parallel card www.siig.com.

tried a few things including there dos drivers as aparently in dos you can change the mode to EPP but im using XP and there is no dos. !

any help would be fantastic !

will have to check the Post info for initial setup (but there is nothing in the instructions !)

 

[Skunkpipe]

you can run a dos command prompt though

Start->Run->Cmd

 

[iamlofi]

thats not DOS . . . its windows command line.

windows XP is an OS in its entirety . . . where windows 95 / 98 were front-ends for DOS.