by bcs » Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:56 am
Hello, the problem w/ PpJoy on XP is, that ANY old settings the registry had regarding LPT, will remain among hidden setting. PPJOY than will recognize the oldest (!!!!) setting, regardless of its status, so we have to remove all the old records.
After you set all the things written already by others (BIOS setting for LPTx to ECP, using interrupt, SW setting in device manager use "Any interrupt assigned to port" [Legacy flag is not relevant]);
1., Add two environment variables to the System category: My_computer/Properties/Advance tab/Environment Variables button.
Here in the section on the bottom (system var.) Click the "New" button.
Type "DEVMGR_SHOW_DETAILS" as the name of the variable (without quotation marks, as usual), and a number of "1" to the value. Ok.
Click "New" again, the name is "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" and the value is 1 again. Ok.
2., Now go to the device manager. Switch on the "Show hidden devices" in the View menu.
Delete all the gray (non active) LPT settings from the Ports listing. Ok.
3., Call the PpJoy configurator, delete all non-working joys, add the new PPM joy to the LPTx.
From now on your computer settings are OK. If it still does not work, the only problem can be the HW (Cable config, resulting wrong signal level, or damaged parallel port HW.... hoping not this latter.)
Any further questions; I can answer after my vacation in september.
'Njoy it!