Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> Can you tell us what the controller does (disk or what?) and who it is
> made by? Or can you tell us what large chips are on it?
>
> > For my sins, I repair hardware for a (meagre) living, and my main
> > instrument is a pinpoint machine which has an industrial pc card
> > running specialised software and driving a set of ISA cards (I have
> > one controller card, 3 driver boards, and a Scanner card on the isa
> > bus. Apparently they are on the bus from 0x0300 up. The software
> > has a file somewhere telling it what's there, and it searches for
> > them. Apparently it is not finding the controller card.
>
> What tells you that? What are your symptoms?
>
> > These cards are non-pnp, and do not identify readily. The machine is
> > tailing edge technology from 1999, but at what it does it's the
> > tops. Now the controller card seems to have sat down, I can't find
> > a hardware fault in it. Neither can I afford a replacement. A sad
> > fact.
> >
> > Is there any utility I can interrogate the bus to find if these
> > cards are there? Isapnp or pnpdump just doesn't see them.
>
> More detailed info please. Some of us have collected a lot of older
> hardware.
>
For the laugh, I can wind this up.
I left the beast failing tests on Friday evening, and powered up on
Sunday evening simply to use the scanner that is attached to it. The
<expletive deleted> thing sat up, passed selftest, and did so again
today. I gather now from the fact that the driver memory was passing
all along that the card is being read by the bus. Further, as I scoped
the vital points while passing & failing selftests and noted the
difference, I now have 'a definite line of enquiry' (in police speak)
and an area to start a general blitz of parts if I can't isolate a fault
So, I'm not out of the woods yet, but I can figure what chips to start
buying to get myself out.
BTW, if anyone with old hardware has one of these Diagnosys Pinpoint 1
machines, it would be good to make contact off list and we could be of
assistance to each other.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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