On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote: > speaking of flakey hardware, I have an acer that has a card in it with two > comm ports on it. com3 is a 9 pin and works or I'd not be writing this > since I use it for my speech synthesizer. com2 is a serial port that has a > d-shell like it could hold 25 pins but doesn't.
It's not a female (all holes, no pins), parallel port, is it? Any chips "obviously" missing from the board? Sometimes you need to install a second UART chip to enable the second COM port on a card. > It also hasn't got 9 pins > so far as I can tell. I tried hooking it up to another computer with a > laplink null modem cable the large connector went into terminal and a small > 9 pin connector actually holes on both sides went into the port on the > server. No joy. Now I'm wondering if this is enabled and how odd ball its > wiring is. You may have to configure the appropriate jumpers on the card to enable it. Try using the FCCID to find the manufacturer's website manual. > I've got a couple pci cards but don't know if they'd even work > in a late 1994-1995 vintage acer like this. Check that the fingers on the socket line up with the card. You don't want to plug a PCI card into an ISA slot. :-) > I'm not even going to comment > on acer's software scheme. Nor am I - as I'm not familiar with them - but have you tried searching http://www.gy.com/company/acercp.htm or http://www.acer.com for your system model number. > None of the machine's original software is on it > since the CD has a number you have to key in just to be able to install any > of it and when I got this machine I wasn't told anything about that number. That sounds like the registration key. Is there a long string of letters and numbers on the CD label or jewel case? Enter it when the box comes up. Boyd Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
