Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:25:53 -0600 From: "Shawn Fitzgerald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem DDL, In your new port replicators do you have PCMCIA support? And does it have a drive in it? And is the drive set to slave? And does you old PortRep not have or have different PCMCIA support? Is it Win98 1st or 2nd edition? I had a problem with my 70ct using a PCMCIA drive, and it couldn't tell which drive was the master and which to boot from. If I put the drive in after boot then all is well. While this may not be exactly your problem you may have an issue with one of the other ports like the monitor, or serial ports. I was using 1st edition of Win98. Hope that helped -Sfitz DDL Wrote: I'm having a funny problem with an enhanced port replicator that I just bought. I exchanged it once, but the new one does the same thing. However, a slightly older one that I have access to works fine. The two new docks that display these problems have serial numbers beginning with X8. The older one that works perfectly no matter how many times I reset it, power-cycle it, or leave it running for hours has a serial number beginning with 98. The Libretto by itself never shows any such problems. I have tried updating the Libretto BIOS to several versions including 8.00, but it has not helped. --- Never use UBID online auction unless you like stress. Get 250 color business cards for FREE! at Lycos Mail http://mail.lycos.com/freemail/vistaprint_index.html ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:08:40 -0800 From: "Marc @ American Elevator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem I used to use an EPR daily with my 'old' 100. It setup the 2nd hardware profile automatically the first time I used it and really, it was trouble-free. Although I never did get the boot screen with the dock image you mentioned, Dan. When I upgraded to a 110, I tried the same EPR I was using with the 100, EPR Model No. PA2719U, Serial No. 58015836, and now I get this strange hissing noise from the 110's speaker whenever I put a PCMCIA card in the dock. I have tried deleting the dock hardware profile, checking the volume(s) when on dock profile and everything else I can think of and have had to abandon using it because of the noise. I have also checked, and there are no reptiles living inside the unit that I can see. What-o-what could this bee? Marc Vendetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dan Lanciani To: Libretto Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:26:37 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem I'm having a funny problem with an enhanced port replicator that I just bought. I exchanged it once, but the new one does the same thing. However, a slightly older one that I have access to works fine. Often when I attempt to power on the Libretto in the dock the power light comes on but the disk light does not, and the system just sits there for as long as I have cared to wait. It doesn't even put up the Toshiba screen (which normally comes after one or two blinks of the disk light.) The reset button has no effect unless I first power down the dock. With power removed from the dock, the reset button causes the system to display the Toshiba screen (without the picture of the dock) and come up. The reset button itself also often provokes the hang if the dock is powered on. The problem seems to come in several levels of intensity. At first I though it might be heat related, but sometimes it works hot and fails when cool. When the system is being most cooperative several power cycles will work, but a reset will often hang. When it is being less cooperative only one in several power cycles will work without hanging and every reset will hang unless the power to the dock is off. Sometimes the Toshiba screen with dock picture is corrupt with extra red pixels here and there, and "Starting Windows 98" comes up as "arting Windows 98." Usually once DOS or Windows is running everything seems to be fine, but sometimes the Windows screen becomes corrupt and Windows hangs (even here powering down the dock seems to unhang Windows, though it crashes soon thereafter). The two new docks that display these problems have serial numbers beginning with X8. The older one that works perfectly no matter how many times I reset it, power-cycle it, or leave it running for hours has a serial number beginning with 98. The Libretto by itself never shows any such problems. I have tried updating the Libretto BIOS to several versions including 8.00, but it has not helped. Has anyone seen anything like this? Could the newer docks be somehow slightly incompatible with an "older" 110? (It can't be much older as neither the computer nor the dock was made for too long.) I don't know to what extent the computer's internal bus is extruded out through the expansion connector, but it almost feels like a bus timing issue. I vaguely remember something that suggested that the dock has some non-volatile configuration memory. The note talked about changing a dock's identification number so Windows could associate two different hardware configurations with two different docks. Unfortunately, I can't find this note anymore. If there is non-volatile memory, perhaps it is somehow misconfigured? Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE---
Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:19:33 -0500 From: "Brian Levy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem My 110CT has until this weekend had not problems. This weekend, I went from the expanded replicator to laptop and when it booted it went through a new hardware configuration. Thereafter, it would not recognize the replicator and attachments including the ps. I finally deleted all configurations save the default, turned everything off and had lunch. I placed it in the replicator, turned it on and it went through a hardware configuration and added a new config. It now recognizes when I use it standalone and with the extended port. The only thing it now does is come up with the pmcia warning when I pull my Xircom PDA card which it did not do before, though it would pop up if I pulled the modem. I have not tried the port replicator since the problem since it sees little use. I've had the unit since about March 2000 (it was a factory executive refurb) with the original Windows 98 from the Libretto discs. Never had this problem until Saturday. Could be a result of popping in a new pmcia card for an ethernet which I previously had not used. I normally keep a floppy, fax/modem plugged in and have a parrellel port Backpack CR-ROM on the unit with a mouse, external keyboard and monitor. Additionally I use the Xircom 5000 PDA with no problem. It is sad this machine was not a marketing success. I find it so much better than anything I've seen to date. The CE machines don't cut it for me since I need it for Lotus Notes, various US and Canada tax software and research applications and I use Lotus Smartsuite. While 64 megs is acceptable, 128 would do a bit better. For my applications 233 mhz does not really cause a problem since I use I for business. It is small enouth to fit in a thin carry case with a side pocket therefore not requiring a laptop case (giveaway for the profit minded). If anyone has a 50/70 in good condition they are willing to part with, my son (13) has his heart set on one. Please email me. Original Message Follows From: "Marc @ American Elevator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:13:06 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:08:40 -0800 From: "Marc @ American Elevator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem I used to use an EPR daily with my 'old' 100. It setup the 2nd hardware profile automatically the first time I used it and really, it was trouble-free. Although I never did get the boot screen with the dock image you mentioned, Dan. When I upgraded to a 110, I tried the same EPR I was using with the 100, EPR Model No. PA2719U, Serial No. 58015836, and now I get this strange hissing noise from the 110's speaker whenever I put a PCMCIA card in the dock. I have tried deleting the dock hardware profile, checking the volume(s) when on dock profile and everything else I can think of and have had to abandon using it because of the noise. I have also checked, and there are no reptiles living inside the unit that I can see. What-o-what could this bee? Marc Vendetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dan Lanciani To: Libretto Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:26:37 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem I'm having a funny problem with an enhanced port replicator that I just bought. I exchanged it once, but the new one does the same thing. However, a slightly older one that I have access to works fine. Often when I attempt to power on the Libretto in the dock the power light comes on but the disk light does not, and the system just sits there for as long as I have cared to wait. It doesn't even put up the Toshiba screen (which normally comes after one or two blinks of the disk light.) The reset button has no effect unless I first power down the dock. With power removed from the dock, the reset button causes the system to display the Toshiba screen (without the picture of the dock) and come up. The reset button itself also often provokes the hang if the dock is powered on. The problem seems to come in several levels of intensity. At first I though it might be heat related, but sometimes it works hot and fails when cool. When the system is being most cooperative several power cycles will work, but a reset will often hang. When it is being less cooperative only one in several power cycles will work without hanging and every reset will hang unless the power to the dock is off. Sometimes the Toshiba screen with dock picture is corrupt with extra red pixels here and there, and "Starting Windows 98" comes
Re: Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:02:44 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem |Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:25:53 -0600 |From: "Shawn Fitzgerald" [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem | | |DDL, | |In your new port replicators do you have PCMCIA support? Yes, it is identical to the other one. |And does it have a drive in it? No, you can't put drives in them. (Well, other than PCMCIA drives. And there aren't any.) A drive comflict was my first thought, but now I don't think so. |Is it Win98 1st or 2nd edition? 1st, but the problem occurs long before Windows comes up. Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:26:37 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem I'm having a funny problem with an enhanced port replicator that I just bought. I exchanged it once, but the new one does the same thing. However, a slightly older one that I have access to works fine. Often when I attempt to power on the Libretto in the dock the power light comes on but the disk light does not, and the system just sits there for as long as I have cared to wait. It doesn't even put up the Toshiba screen (which normally comes after one or two blinks of the disk light.) The reset button has no effect unless I first power down the dock. With power removed from the dock, the reset button causes the system to display the Toshiba screen (without the picture of the dock) and come up. The reset button itself also often provokes the hang if the dock is powered on. The problem seems to come in several levels of intensity. At first I though it might be heat related, but sometimes it works hot and fails when cool. When the system is being most cooperative several power cycles will work, but a reset will often hang. When it is being less cooperative only one in several power cycles will work without hanging and every reset will hang unless the power to the dock is off. Sometimes the Toshiba screen with dock picture is corrupt with extra red pixels here and there, and "Starting Windows 98" comes up as "arting Windows 98." Usually once DOS or Windows is running everything seems to be fine, but sometimes the Windows screen becomes corrupt and Windows hangs (even here powering down the dock seems to unhang Windows, though it crashes soon thereafter). The two new docks that display these problems have serial numbers beginning with X8. The older one that works perfectly no matter how many times I reset it, power-cycle it, or leave it running for hours has a serial number beginning with 98. The Libretto by itself never shows any such problems. I have tried updating the Libretto BIOS to several versions including 8.00, but it has not helped. Has anyone seen anything like this? Could the newer docks be somehow slightly incompatible with an "older" 110? (It can't be much older as neither the computer nor the dock was made for too long.) I don't know to what extent the computer's internal bus is extruded out through the expansion connector, but it almost feels like a bus timing issue. I vaguely remember something that suggested that the dock has some non-volatile configuration memory. The note talked about changing a dock's identification number so Windows could associate two different hardware configurations with two different docks. Unfortunately, I can't find this note anymore. If there is non-volatile memory, perhaps it is somehow misconfigured? Dan Lanciani [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
