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Delock Parallel Port Card

(This has already been done for CHBH-ST-MEG-W02)

Presentation

Once the card is installed in a PCIe x1 slot, boot the computer.

  • Open Device Manager
  • Find the Ports (COM & LPT), open sub-menu.
  • Printer Port (LPT1), right click.
  • Update Driver Software...
  • Point Windows to the location of the contents of the Delock driver installation CD and it should find the Oxford Chipset drivers.
    Copies of the driver (and other required files) can also be found on the Stim LOCAL (L:) drive, in a directory called Drivers
    • The LPT port should get relabelled as PCI Express ECP Parallel Port (LPT1).

On starting, Presentation should detect the card as an LPT-port, and be able to send triggers.

Under Device Manager, right-click on the LPT port.

  • Select Properties, Change settings, Port Settings (may require an Admin account).
    • Change the port number to LPT1 (for convenience) (may already be set to LPT1).
  • Select Properties, Resources.
    • Shows the physical port address of the card.
      • In 64-bit Windows, this will be something like 0xCFF8
      • The physical address is needed for PsychoPy.

PsychoPy

For PsychoPy, some drivers are still needed as described at ...

The reason is PsychoPy is still a 32-bit application.

Running the InstallDriver.exe application (as instructed on the webpage) only installs 64-bit libs, whereas the 32-bit version is still required for PsychoPy. Therefore ...

  • Extract the archive.
  • Copy the file Win32/inpout32.dll ...
  • ... to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

Psychtoolbox (64bit Matlab)

The same InpOut Binaries (http://www.highrez.co.uk/Downloads/InpOut32/default.htm are used here (64-bit).

Running the InstallDriver.exe application (as instructed on the webpage) only installs 64-bit drivers, not the DLL, which will have to be copied in manually.

  • Extract the archive.
  • Copy the file x64/inpoutx64.dll ...
  • ... to C:\Windows\System32