Re: TI-H: Re: Newbie Q - The imfamous 'not working' message
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Re: TI-H: Re: Newbie Q - The imfamous 'not working' message
If the LED doesn't light up, it's not working at all. It should be on at
all times. I would look at the link hardware, and make sure that you have
it in the right port. Also see if the port is enabled in Device Manager.
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: William Cox <william@characterlink.net>
To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: Re: Newbie Q - The imfamous 'not working' message
>
> I still can't figure it out. I've DLd and tried almost every sender for
the
> 85. Should the LED light up when it is plugged in, or just during
transmit?
> Mine doesn't light up at all. I don't understand your comments about
> voltages.
> -William
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Knaack <dknaack@rdtech.com>
> To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:41 AM
> Subject: TI-H: Re: Newbie Q - The imfamous 'not working' message
>
>
> >
> > From: "William Cox" <william@characterlink.net>
> > > I'm using the $4 dollar
> > > schemo. I've been over the circuit a number of time, and I'm fairly
> > certian
> > > that all is well. But, it doesn't work. Whenever I plug in the cable
> into
> > > the COM1 port and into my calc. The screen (on the calc) freezes.
> >
> > Generally it will freeze if the link program has not initialized the
> serial
> > port correctly. When idle the voltages on both link port connectors
(calc
> > and link cable) should be about 5v. If you check you will almost
> certainly
> > find that one or both of your link cable lines are at 0 volts. For some
> > reason the calc runs slow under this condition, I don't know why,
perhaps
> > the processor enters a tight wait loop to monitor that line for the
> > communication protocol.
> >
> > > None of the programs I've DLd have gotten there.
> >
> > One of them, Cal I think, used to have the com1 and com2 backwards,
which
> > caused no end of problems for people.
> >
> > DK
> >
> >
>
>
>
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