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Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:52:21 GMT
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The light goes on as soon as you plug in the tower? Sounds like someone is
already using COM3.
I was looking around DELL technical support and you may have a bit of work ahead
of you.
First off your serial port on the inspiron 8200 should be COM1. I would try
running hyperterminal and see what it finds for ports.
Another thing that was mentioned often is disabling the IR. Maybe your computer
has the IR and serial port confused. Or you could have some software that is
trying to synch up through the com port. Has this laptop ever been used with a
PDA?
My suggestion is to go to the Dell website and look at serial port problems for
inspiron laptops. People complain about their technical support, but that is
mostly just the phone support. Their tech support wizards and support database
are excellent.
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| I feel kind of dumb: the serial port was disabled in the BIOS. However, now that it is enabled and is assigned COM1 (and shows up in Device Manager under Ports), I'm still having problems: C:nqc>nqc -SCOM1 -v -d test.nqc Downloading Program:Tx: 55 (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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