[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>My port has gone from bad to good to bad in the last couple days while
>retesting. In general, restarting does not help, but picking up the
>computer definitely sometimes allows a short file to be transferred. I'm
>still not sure it's hardware, though. Typing as a "dumb terminal" at 50
>baud often works, but when I start typing to fast it gets garbled.
>Again, when it is "bad", large files (which require periodic handshaking)
>or high bit rates are impossible. TechToolPro has a serial port test
>which tests "good" when the port seems to be working and "bad" when the
>port is not working. (You have to put a modem or home-made loopback plug
>on your serial port during the TechTool test).
This sounds very much like my problem with the 210 serial port solder
joint fatigue as described earlier. Everything you write above
"says" hardware!!
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