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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga Parallel port prob
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 19:00:07 GMT
- Organization: UT Applied Research Laboratories
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- Jason Kempnich (jasonk@smople.thehub.com.au) wrote:
- : Hi folks,
-
- : I'm posting this in the [vain] hope that someone has experienced this
- : before. You see, if I don't get a bit of help with this, the repair bill
- : could cost well over $1000 (you'll see why later).
-
- : THE PROBLEM:
- : My Amiga 4000/040 crashes every time I go to print. It doesn't matter
- : what program I'm using - even copying my startup-sequence to par: will
- : crash the machine evey time without fail. The serial port is fine, as is
- : all the software. Its definatly the parallel port. I proved the software
- : side (printer drivers, devices etc etc) to be OK by booting up on an old
- : Workbench 1.2 disk that has not been used since 1.2 was new - anyway, it
- : crashed.
-
- There is a product that originated in Australia that is for sale here in
- the US called "AmigaAnalyzer" that has several hardware connectors and some
- software to test each of the pieces.
-
- I don't have the hardware in front of me, so I don't remember if it does
- the parallel port or not. I do know that it does mouse, serial, floppy, and
- serial ports. The cost here in the US is $69.95. I've got one, and have
- not had to use the hardware tests as of yet...
-
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- jerry
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