Re: Thanks! It worked!

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This message was posted by sledge, posted on August 14, 2001 at 16:49:22 coming from 213.89.118
This message is a reply to Re: Perhaps this will solve your problem! posted from Randy MH posted at August 14, 2001 at 15:17:30
> > There seems to be a voltage on the outer casing of the plug of my parralel lead that should'nt be there and it mucks up both my SWC and V64, would cutting off the outer metal leaving just the pins solve the poroblem or are some of the pins linked to the same line too? I asked my PC maker and they just gave me a fob-off.

> > > My laptop seems to release the parallell port better than my AMD Athlon. So that I don't have to unplug the parallell cable everytime I want to restart the SWCDX2.

> > > Stupid thing actually, could have been better done on the SWCDX I think. It works, but it's not how it should be I think.

> Look what I found on the net:

> ratnuts@panix.com (Peter Mui) writes on how to make the cable to transfer
> files between a PC and a SWC. Get a RS232 DB M/M 25 pin cable. Remove pins
> 12, 14, 15, and 16. This removes the volts sent by the computer when it is
> turned off.

> Randy

I had to set my PC LPT to normal mode. But it works great now! No need to unplug
the cable anylonger!

Thanks!

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Message	> > > There seems to be a voltage on the outer casing of the plug of my parralel lead that should'nt be there and it mucks up both my SWC and V64, would cutting off the outer metal leaving just the pins solve the poroblem or are some of the pins linked to the same line too? I asked my PC maker and they just gave me a fob-off. > > > > My laptop seems to release the parallell port better than my AMD Athlon. So that I don't have to unplug the parallell cable everytime I want to restart the SWCDX2. > > > > Stupid thing actually, could have been better done on the SWCDX I think. It works, but it's not how it should be I think. > > Look what I found on the net: > > ratnuts@panix.com (Peter Mui) writes on how to make the cable to transfer > > files between a PC and a SWC. Get a RS232 DB M/M 25 pin cable. Remove pins > > 12, 14, 15, and 16. This removes the volts sent by the computer when it is > > turned off. > > Randy > I had to set my PC LPT to normal mode. But it works great now! No need to unplug > the cable anylonger! > Thanks!
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