Diacom plus on Pentium laptops

[Terry_Sare at dell.com]

And if you try sourcing any power for the serial or parallel port you may
also be trouble. Most laptops have such a tight power budget that they don't
leave any left over high power driver chips on ports. The CPU uses it all.

ts

standard disclaimer: I only speak for myself and not the company!!


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us [SMTP:dave.williams at chaos.lrk.ar.us]
> Sent:	Monday, July 27, 1998 6:57 AM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	Re: Diacom plus on Pentium laptops
> 
> 
> -> A lot of  PC from the big manufacturers have non-standard parrallel
> -> port set up which cause problems under Win95
> 
>  "Non-standard" is essentially meaningless with regard to PC parallel
> ports.  The original IBM PC was available with either the
> monochrome/printer card or the CGA and a separate printer card.
> Unfortunately neither of them matched the schematics in the IBM Personal
> Computer Technical Reference.  The ATs were different, but at least
> matched the documentation, as have the *several* PS/2 ports and later
> ISA machines' ports.
> 
>  Many, many vendors of both hardware and software have been bitten by
> this, including Microsoft, who surely should have known better.
> 
>  Unfortunately, if Diacom won't run on your laptop, there's little you
> can do other than toss it and buy another laptop.
> 
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