LCD Smartie Controlled by USB to Parallel Port

Marty · Post by **Marty** » February 5th, 2008, 10:13 am

I just purchased a an Asus motherboard (M3A). It has no parallel port but does have a serial port. I purchased a USB to parallel port adaptor. The display does not come up but the software runs on the monitor. Any suggestions to make the display work?

Post by **mattcro** » February 5th, 2008, 12:59 pm

You are out of luck with the USB>Parallel adaptor. There are a few posts on this forum about these, and the short answer is they don't work for LCD interfacing, only for standard LPT printers. LCD Smartie (and other software) requires a real hardware parallel port for LCD interfacing.

You should be able to use a PCI card parallel port OK under WinXP - not sure about Vista. It will have a strange address that you must tell Smartie - you can find the address in Device Manager.

The best options for connecting LCDs are serial and USB ports, but you either have to get an LCD with serial/USB interface, or build your own interface...

Post by **limbo** » February 5th, 2008, 10:28 pm

Check at the hardware section there are few solutions interfacing the LCD.

The latest success tests was here:
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1540