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Hi,
I use labview to drive my stepper motor connected to the parallel port
on my Win98 machine. The motor takes a step for every clock pulse sent
out on a particular pin on the port.
Although my problem is not directly related to labview, I was hoping to
get a solution. Every time I reboot my computer (at least once a day,
it seems) the computer sends a series of clock pulses to the port,
moving my motor several hundred steps. I cannot tell if it's a regular
series of pulses or just random noise.
Is there a way to disable the lpt port or otherwise prevent spurious
noise being sent out to my motor when rebooting my machine? Or when
labview is not running?
Thanks,
Scot

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