Had this problem at the begining of the year.

try this thread.
http://forum.avolites.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=220

it should help.

Have you tried to see what settings your LPT port are; under the bios settings?

It should be set to [EPP] mode. see if that may be the problem. I had this problem when I upgraded a motherboard last year. the defaults were set to [ECP+EPP] mode.

Jason

Thanks that seem to work for me.

Jason

I loaded the 2004 simulator to try out and after a few minutes I get a "sort it out!!" error.

I went back to the 2000 simulator and all works fine.
any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

TIA
Jason

I have ran the 2000 pear sim and vis with no problems just need the dongle. Make sure the setting in the pearl sim under user settings is to visulasier and in viv just select the simulator under the run page. I can't say anything about the 2004 sim as I keep getting a "sort it out" error right now. ...