omega 2.1 and vista – HELP please

[David Rowland]

ah vista… hmm
um… how about Right mouse button on Setup.exe and choosing Properties, then "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" … XP
Other bits there too#

not forgetting
http://www.gspinc.com/support/downloads/software.html

[Jason Davies]

Dave, I owe you a couple of pints, thank you, it worked. I just have one more question, not being a PC expert, I have had to fit a parallel to USB lead, do you know how I can get my machine to see this, the serial port conversion is fine, does that make sense?

Thanks again

Jason

[David Rowland]

as u possibly aware there is a load of posts on here asking about that jason… bad news is i dont know the best answer to that

[Jason Davies]

Thanks Dave, I’ll do a search

[John Cooper]

Did you really mean Parallel to USB and not the other way round Jason?

Hope all is going well?

John

[Jason Davies]

Hi John, Parallel to USB is the problem for us, i.e we are running Omega 2.1 solely to power up our Edge, no design work etc unfortunately the machine is now in the skip and we have replaced this unfortunately we cannot fit a parallel cable to it and omega 2.1 does not recognise a usb cable coming from the edge. I was thinking of upgrading to 3.0 but can’t see much of a benefit, may well just buy a reconditioned laptop to sit on top of the machine instead just to power it up. Although that then makes the new PC redundant?? Arghhhhhhh

Hope all is well with yourself?

Jason

[George Zerbino]

Jason,

There are only a handful of parallel to usb adaptors that will work with the Edge, I would suggest getting the one that Spandex sells, as it’s guaranteed to work.
I have one and it works fine. By the way, you will need Omega 2.5 minimum for this (or other adaptors) to work.
Not too sure if I can post a link here for some more info about it, so admin feel free to delete as required
http://www.gspinc.com/downloads/PDF/fastfacts/5100.pdf

Hope it helps,
George Z.

[Jason Davies]

Thanks George, I think I will buy a parallel card for the PC, this will hopefully work, I’ll check to see what the upgrade price is on Monday as well. Just needed to complete some work on it urgently this weekend, I’ve subbed this out now.

Jason