| Author: | DonM (guest: search) |
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| Date: | Fri, Mar 14th, 2008 @ 12:07 ( . ) |
A little update: I found XCTEST and XCDETECT on Joe Forster's site which claim they will test the cable & parallel port. Since XCDETECT didn't come with any documentation I figured I would run it on my PC to see what the command line options were before trying it on my sons PC. When it showed a parallel port on my PC I was a little surprised. I got out a flashlight and my initial assumption was wrong - my PC does have a parallel port, it's just not where it usually is on the backplane of most motherboards so I didn't see it when I looked a few weeks ago. So I installed OpenCBM on my PC, which is running Windows XP, and I get the same results as on my sons PC... XCDETECT gives no output after it says "detecting cable." I'm not quite sure XCTEST will test the way I want... I also tried messing around in the BIOS and changing interrupts as well as changing options in Device Manager but nothing worked. In device manager I changed the Windows default of "Never use an interrupt" to "Use any interrupt assigned to the port" and when that didn't work I checked "Enable legacy Plug & Play detection (LPT1)" but that seemed to make things worse. I'm guessing I'll have to tear apart my 1541 and re-solder the VIA again unless someone here has a better suggestion. |
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