LCD display won't work with PCI Parallell port.

fUzZy^ · Post by **fUzZy^** » September 29th, 2006, 4:48 pm

Hi, i bought a LCD display a week ago.

I tested it on my mom's PC which have a parallell port, and it worked perfect.

My new computer don't have a parallellport so i bougt an PCI IO Controller Card, and installed the driver. Installed the port95nt software and LCD Smartie, but it wont work?

All wiring is correct.

The LCD display:
http://www.microplex.no/product.aspx?pi ... X4BL&mcat=

The PCI IO controller card:
http://www.bravo-tech.com/product/io/PT9715-2P.htm

What is wrong? The display is only showing white squares

Screenshot of LCD Smartie:

I'm on a 64bit CPU, does that got something to do with the problem?

Post by **limbo** » September 29th, 2006, 6:42 pm

You have to tweak the port address take a look here:
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=54

eighthundred · Post by **eighthundred** » December 12th, 2006, 4:03 pm

i have the same LCD as fUzZy; and i installed the NetMos 9835 PCI Multi-I/O Controller as my mobo don't have a parallel port, too...
i've smartie 5.32 running, but nothing happen... then i changed the HD44780 settings...

Port: B800 <-- what i've got from windows xp following this post http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=54
Driver boot delay: 1
Timing multplier: 1
Fix 16x1 line: not check
Use KS0073: not check

then now i have a blinking LCD, only backlight is blinking, not showing anything.
anyone here knows how to fix this? when i plug my LCD to another PC with a parallel on mobo, it works fine, so i know the LCD is good.

garnold · Post by **garnold** » January 2nd, 2007, 5:41 pm

eighthundred did you get this to work? I have kind of the same problem and checked the ports but still no luck