Re: Optiplex 620 Serial card Problem

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From: paulmd
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:40

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On Jul 7, 7:29 pm, "Mike" <1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> We have some leased Dell Optiplex gx620 PCs hosted XP Pro images, w/ serial
> cards that  hat are not recognized by Palm Vx PDAs.  Device Manager does not
> show any errors.  Is there any way I test the serial port?  Several -years
> ago I used a command  to send a text file to a serial port to test it.  It
> would even "wake up" a serial port - make it active.
> Unfortunately I forgot the command.  Is it poosible the problem is w/ the
> ghosted image?
>
> Help,
>
> mike

Quick and dirty: Dig up an old serial mouse. (actually, you can still
but them new at radio shack) If the mouse works, it is likely that the
port is functional.

To print a text file out of a serial port

type myfile.txt > com1

or com2, or whatever the port happens to be. Unfortunately, to
actually see the output, you'd need a serial printer (some label
printers work).

Yet another possible test is to dig up an old external modem, and see
if you can talk to it.

I note that you said serial "cards" is this indeed a pci serial port,
and not built in one?

Re ghosted images: they work if the hardware is the same, but there
can be major headaches if there are differences.

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