Most older laptops have power saving hardware on the com ports and the lpt ports too!
Try putting a blinky box on the port to see if the signals stay lit through the stall. -Chuck Harris paul swed wrote: > Thanks everyone. > However on the dell laptop its an actual rs232 port. They used to include > those. :-) > I am thinking of trying a usb port to see if that works. It is all working > nicely on a acer windoze vista laptop.But the machine I normally use for > this stuff is the dell laptop. > Regards > Paul > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Chuck Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A customer's 'doze 7 computer got auto updated to 'doze 10, >> and with that upgrade came a usb hub that timed out, turning >> itself off.... the only problem was, the keyboard and >> mouse were on that hub, leaving no way to signal the computer >> to turn the hub back on. Ultimately, the customer found that >> if he unplugged the monitor, plug and pray would restore things. >> For a while. >> >> -Chuck Harris _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
