Well as an update to anyone who may face similar issues, I ended up swapping out the mother board for one with a native parallel port (one of the few which are built for 3rd generation intel chips). It was an easy build as I could transfer all of my current components. The new board has a ps/2 serial port but I was still having issues with the SRbox failing to communicate through that port so I bought the usb--serial port adapter recommended by pstnet and finally am able to get back on track.<div><br></div><div>I went with xp and so far have had success with the I/O communications (still finishing the program to make sure video displays work smoothly). <br><div><br></div><div>the additional hardware I purchased:<br><div><h1 class="parseasinTitle " style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><font size="2">StarTech.com USB to RS232 DB9/DB25 Serial Adapter Cable ICUSB232DB25 (amazon.com)</font></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 11.111111640930176px;"><font size="2">MB GIGABYTE|GA-B75M-D3V B75 LGA1155 (carried by newegg.com)</font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9px; line-height: 11.109375px;"><br></span></font><div>Stuart<br><br>On Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:52:47 PM UTC-5, McFarlane, David wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">Stuart,
<br>
<br>Hmm -- I just wanted to make sure that you were not trying to use EP1
<br>drivers with Win7, that will not work. But if you installed EP2,
<br>then you have the updated PST Port & SRBox drivers, so much for that.
<br>
<br>I also assume that in your EP program you match the SRBox port number
<br>to that of your installed serial port (just to be sure -- what COM
<br>port # does Windows report for your serial port, and what port # does
<br>your EP program specify? For that matter, exactly what error message
<br>do you get?). So I do not have much more to offer you, let's hope
<br>that PST Support takes it the rest of the way. FWIW, I use the SRBox
<br>using an add-on PCI (or PCI-X) serial port card under Windows Vista
<br>(32 bit) and EP2.0.8.22 Pro.
<br>
<br>-----
<br>David McFarlane
<br>E-Prime training
<br>online: <a href="http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx" target="_blank">http://psychology.msu.edu/<wbr>Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx</a>
<br>Twitter: @EPrimeMaster (<a href="https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr>EPrimeMaster</a>)
<br>
<br>
<br>At 1/15/2013 11:06 PM Tuesday, Stuart Quirk wrote:
<br>>The latest version. I'm not at my computer at this moment (and
<br>>heading to a conference for the weekend) but it was a fresh install
<br>>of windows 7 64 (because I swapped out the hard drive for a solid state).
<br>>So all up to date drivers and downloaded the latest eprime 2 (professional).
<br>>It runs the sample eprime programs fine but anything that attempts
<br>>to access the serial or parallel ports crashes eprime.
<br>>
<br>>I'd read both that windows 7 is more restrictive in allowing access
<br>>to that level of data I/O than xp so was wondering if swapping to xp
<br>>would solve the problem or if it's a non-mother board pci card issue.
<br>>Sadly, I don't have a handy xp computer without mother board ports
<br>>that I can pop the pci card in and play with (they all seem to be
<br>>either windows 7 or xp with mother board ports..but I thought that
<br>>might help isolate the problem. Still waiting to hear back from
<br>>pstnet support). I will post when I hear from them in case others
<br>>face similar problems.
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>On Monday, January 14, 2013 2:20:24 PM UTC-5, McFarlane, David wrote:
<br>>Stuart,
<br>>
<br>>What version of E-Prime?
<br>>
<br>>-----
<br>>David McFarlane
<br>>E-Prime training
<br>>online:
<br>><<a href="http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx" target="_blank">http://psychology.msu.edu/<wbr>Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx</a>><a href="http://psychology.msu.edu/Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx" target="_blank"><wbr>http://psychology.msu.edu/<wbr>Workshops_Courses/eprime.aspx</a>
<br>>
<br>>Twitter: @EPrimeMaster
<br>>(<<a href="https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr>EPrimeMaster</a>><a href="https://twitter.com/EPrimeMaster" target="_blank">https://twitter.<wbr>com/EPrimeMaster</a>)
<br>>
<br>>/----
<br>>Stock reminder: 1) I do not work for PST. 2) PST's trained staff
<br>>take any and all questions at
<br>><<a href="http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp" target="_blank">http://support.pstnet.com/e%<wbr>2Dprime/support/login.asp</a>><a href="http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp" target="_blank">http<wbr>://support.pstnet.com/e%<wbr>2Dprime/support/login.asp</a>
<br>>, and they
<br>>strive to respond to all requests in 24-48 hours, so make full use of
<br>>it. 3) In addition, PST takes questions at their Facebook page
<br>>(<<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Psychology-Software-Tools-Inc/241802160683" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr>pages/Psychology-Software-<wbr>Tools-Inc/241802160683</a>><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Psychology-Software-Tools-Inc/241802160683" target="_blank">http://<wbr>www.facebook.com/pages/<wbr>Psychology-Software-Tools-Inc/<wbr>241802160683</a>
<br>>
<br>>), and offers several instructional videos there and on their YouTube
<br>>channel
<br>>(<<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PSTNET" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/<wbr>user/PSTNET</a>><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/PSTNET" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>youtube.com/user/PSTNET</a>
<br>>) (no Twitter feed yet,
<br>>though). 4) If you do get an answer from PST staff, please extend
<br>>the courtesy of posting their reply back here for the sake of others.
<br>>\----
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>
<br>>At 1/12/2013 10:44 AM Saturday, Stuart Quirk wrote:
<br>> >Hello all and thanks in advance for any feedback.
<br>> >
<br>> >I've recently upgraded my primary lab computer and installed a pcie
<br>> >combo parallel port/serial port (I had used both motherboard serial
<br>> >port for the SRBOX and parallel port send a ttl signal to trigger my
<br>> >eye tracker).
<br>> >I got a manufacturer indicated by pstnet as one people have had some
<br>> >luck with:
<br>> ><<<a href="http://www.siig.com/it-products/serial-parallel/combo/pcie/cyber-" target="_blank">http://www.siig.com/it-<wbr>products/serial-parallel/<wbr>combo/pcie/cyber-</a>
<br>> 1s1p-pcie.html><a href="http://www.siig.com/it-products/serial-parallel/combo/pcie/cyber-1s1p-pcie.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>siig.com/it-products/serial-<wbr>parallel/combo/pcie/cyber-<wbr>1s1p-pcie.html</a>><a href="http://www.siig.com/it-products/serial-parallel/combo/pcie/cyber-1s1p-pcie.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>siig.com/it-products/serial-<wbr>parallel/combo/pcie/cyber-<wbr>1s1p-pcie.html</a>
<br>>
<br>> >
<br>> >It installed fine but eprime crashes when I attempt to run the
<br>> >utilities program for the SRBOX and pstnet's tester program fails to
<br>> >find the box. And my simple parallel port monitor program (parmon)
<br>> >doesn't find the port either.
<br>> >In xp (on my last computer) I was able to use inpout32.dll and then
<br>> >just insert very simple inline scripts to set the address high/low
<br>> >within my experiment. From what I could learn (and understand as a
<br>> >nonprogrammer) inpout64x.dll is much less successful with pci cards
<br>> >under windows 7 64
<br>> >
<br>> >So I'm trying to figure out is my problem the OS (as in would I have
<br>> >better luck moving the OS to xp?) or is my problem a PCI card? It
<br>> >will take me a good chunk of more time to wipe everything and
<br>> >install xp so I thought someone here might help me save some time if
<br>> >that would be a pointless exercise.
<br>> >
<br>> >Thanks again
<br>> >Stuart
<br>
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