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Problem with PAR
vbt - Sep 22, 2003
  vbt Sep 22, 2003
I've received my PAR



I have a small problem, the cable given with the commcard doesn't fit correctly into the connector of my PAR. So what is the best thing to do?

I can extract the connector from the cable (it's really easy) but it will be out of order quickly.

Also I have a cable from my previous scanner which fits perfectly but I don't know it the Commcard cable is a standard parralel cable.

Can someone give me hints to solve this problem, I'm pretty sure that other people had the same problem as me.

 antime Sep 22, 2003

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by vbt@Sep 23, 2003 @ 12:01 AM



 Also I have a cable from my previous scanner which fits perfectly but I don't know it the Commcard cable is a standard parralel cable.


It is.

 vbt Sep 27, 2003
Thanks for your small but precious answer, It works with my old scanner parallel cable

 sizone Sep 30, 2003
so if i'm not mistaken, your 'puter still has eisa slots? weird

 Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 30, 2003
I've wanted a comm links card for a while now, but none of the pc's I own have an isa slot... and it's not worth building an old school pc just for the card.

 antime Sep 30, 2003
Lots of places are giving away or throwing out even Pentiums nowadays. It doesn't even have to be powerful enough for a comfortable programming environment as you can just chuck in a network card and push over the binaries.

 Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 30, 2003
Well it's not just the work associated with building the pc, it's also the storage space for the pc. Space is a real issue for me lol.

 antime Sep 30, 2003
True, I think the best option here would be getting a "slim"/pizzabox-style case and running Linux in headless mode (however many of those computers used specialized components which makes running Linux a lot harder). I've been thinking about this myself as I'd like to swap my current Abit mobo for something which isn't expected to corrupt HDs or blow capacitors, but this would also mean losing the ISA slot.


  
	
	

		
		

			lol


You must be the most easily amused person on this planet.

 Scared0o0Rabbit Sep 30, 2003
It's more like there's nothing I can do about it, so why be bitter? It's a lot easier going through life being happy then angry.

 sizone Oct 1, 2003
weird, i been running an abit motherboard for 2 years now and have had no problems with it. it replaced the via mb that produced unstable core voltages and had a large part in causing me the gray hairs that are now popping up on my head (the camaro i owned when i was younger was pr'lly the other prime cause)

ABIT

made very well in taiwan

 antime Oct 1, 2003
KT7A, go look it up. Shitness squared.

 Scared0o0Rabbit Oct 1, 2003
wow, that's interesting... cause I've built 5 or 6 pc's with abit motherboards with no problems at all. I think I may even be running the kt7, cna't remember off the top of my head.

In any case, shouldn't this thread be locked or something, since the problem has been addressed, and it's drifted so far off track? ^_^;

 mal Oct 1, 2003
Nah, you guys seem to be having fun.

 sizone Oct 1, 2003
i got a ktza, what i'm running right now. guess i got lucky cause once again. the things been almost flawless. i'm starting to get alot of runtime errors and shit, but there's a lot of other factors that could be causing that. the first 2 years were almost problem free.

now the via az11, buyng that was one of the worst mistakes i've ever made in my life