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2025-05-11 18:29:07
I bought this card to use a GCC Mercury I laser engraver on a Gigabyte (GA-H77N) computer, which does not have a parallel port.I struggled to get this card working with the old C02 Mercury laser engraver. I almost gave up, but today it started working! My persistence paid off.The OS I used for the laser engraver was originally Windows 7-32, and the driver would not work on a 64 bit OS, and has not been updated for more than 15 years.I upgraded Windows 7-32 to Windows 10-32 bit. Note that Win 10-32 will NOT run in UEFI mode and has to be run in BIOS mode, so I added an MBR SSD drive--you can dual boot between UEFI or legacy BIOS, or turn one drive on or off in the CMOS setup. I have the 64 bit Windows drive running on a separate GPT SSD.Things that I think were critical for a Windows 10-32 setup (did not try on a Windows 7-32 platform yet-I assume that would be easier):1) The GCC print driver is not signed so you have to to turn off driver signing. There are a couple of methods. Look it up. Driver signing will turn it back on on the next reboot after you install the driver.2) I made the Mercury the default printer.3) I installed the motherboard chipset info file for the Gigabyte mother board. Not sure that was necessary.4) The Plug and Play setting in the Control Panel settings was set to ON.5) I kept updating the new Windows 10-32 installation until there were no more updates.I am not positive about which items may not be mandatory. Also, I found that failed prints during my setup left a lot of failed prints in the laser engraver memory and needed to be fully purged.THANKS VANTEC!
Andrew
2025-04-12 16:54:13
Pros:- Does exactly what it should do as a parallel port card- Comes with full size and low profile brackets- Has an Oxford chipset that is compatible with LinuxCNC
Thomas Bledsoe
2025-02-13 10:09:44
Updating previous review. Tried it in another PC, and it fried my dongle. Shut down my PC, but apparently, did not damage it.
RCam
2024-11-27 10:49:17
The single-port parallel card (UGT-PCE10PL) works well with LinuxCNC 2.7.15. However, it appears as "disabled" with version 2.8.4 of LinuxCNC. It uses an ASIX AX99100 controller IC.