Hi John,
We are unable to locate a sales record based on the information you've supplied. Can you supply any further information, e.g. the company name under which the original sale was registered, invoice number or date etc? With this information we will be able to ascertain what products you are licensed for. Without knowing exactly what you're licensed for, what follows can only deal with the likeliest scenarios.
What dongle number is shown when, in Stardraw, you select Help | About Stardraw ?
We haven't shipped parallel port dongles for about 10 years and they are no longer supported, therefore our current installations do not include drivers for these now obsolete devices. You may be able to download the latest Sentinel driver from http://www.safenet-inc.com/support-downloads/sentinel-drivers/ but we cannot guarantee that this will solve your problem because it is unsupported hardware.
However, since we're dealing with such an old dongle, and in the absence of licensing details, we have to consider the possibility that your subscription, through which access to online services and techncial support are delivered, may have expired a long time ago. If your subscription expired before January 1st 2007 your dongle will not be licensed to run Stardraw AV 2007 so the behavior you're seeing would be normal and correct (i.e. the dongle would be licensed for the pre-2007 version of Stardraw AV and not the current version). In this case you would need to upgrade to Stardraw AV 2007 and as part of this we would send a new USB dongle.
If, however, you have a current subscription we will be happy to send you a new USB dongle free of charge as part of our support service.
If your last subscription expired after January 1st 2007 you should renew to receive support and access to the latest data. Again, as part of this we would send a new, supported dongle.
In summary, we can only offer support on current/supported products where a current subscription is in place, and in these cases we would ensure use of a USB dongle.
Apologies for the length of this, but I thought it best to cover all the bases. If you can help us track down your sales info/licensing details or, indeed, dongle number we can ascertain the correct course of action.
Kind regards,
Rob Robinson
Stardraw.com