Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:19:33 -0500
From: "Brian Levy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
My 110CT has until this weekend had not problems. This weekend, I went from
the expanded replicator to laptop and when it booted it went through a new
hardware configuration. Thereafter, it would not recognize the replicator
and attachments including the ps. I finally deleted all configurations save
the default, turned everything off and had lunch. I placed it in the
replicator, turned it on and it went through a hardware configuration and
added a new config. It now recognizes when I use it standalone and with the
extended port. The only thing it now does is come up with the pmcia warning
when I pull my Xircom PDA card which it did not do before, though it would
pop up if I pulled the modem. I have not tried the port replicator since the
problem since it sees little use.
I've had the unit since about March 2000 (it was a factory executive refurb)
with the original Windows 98 from the Libretto discs. Never had this problem
until Saturday. Could be a result of popping in a new pmcia card for an
ethernet which I previously had not used. I normally keep a floppy,
fax/modem plugged in and have a parrellel port Backpack CR-ROM on the unit
with a mouse, external keyboard and monitor. Additionally I use the Xircom
5000 PDA with no problem.
It is sad this machine was not a marketing success. I find it so much
better than anything I've seen to date. The CE machines don't cut it for me
since I need it for Lotus Notes, various US and Canada tax software and
research applications and I use Lotus Smartsuite. While 64 megs is
acceptable, 128 would do a bit better. For my applications 233 mhz does not
really cause a problem since I use I for business. It is small enouth to fit
in a thin carry case with a side pocket therefore not requiring a laptop
case (giveaway for the profit minded).
If anyone has a 50/70 in good condition they are willing to part with, my
son (13) has his heart set on one. Please email me.
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From: "Marc @ American Elevator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:13:06 -0800
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:08:40 -0800
From: "Marc @ American Elevator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
I used to use an EPR daily with my 'old' 100. It setup the 2nd hardware
profile automatically the first time I used it and really, it was
trouble-free. Although I never did get the boot screen with the dock image
you mentioned, Dan.
When I upgraded to a 110, I tried the same EPR I was using with the 100, EPR
Model No. PA2719U, Serial No. 58015836, and now I get this strange hissing
noise from the 110's speaker whenever I put a PCMCIA card in the dock. I
have tried deleting the dock hardware profile, checking the volume(s) when
on dock profile and everything else I can think of and have had to abandon
using it because of the noise. I have also checked, and there are no
reptiles living inside the unit that I can see.
What-o-what could this bee?
Marc Vendetti
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----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Lanciani
To: Libretto
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:26:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Dan Lanciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 110 enhanced port replicator problem
I'm having a funny problem with an enhanced port replicator that I
just bought. I exchanged it once, but the new one does the same thing.
However, a slightly older one that I have access to works fine.
Often when I attempt to power on the Libretto in the dock the power
light comes on but the disk light does not, and the system just sits
there for as long as I have cared to wait. It doesn't even put up
the Toshiba screen (which normally comes after one or two blinks of
the disk light.) The reset button has no effect unless I first power
down the dock. With power removed from the dock, the reset button causes
the system to display the Toshiba screen (without the picture of the
dock) and come up. The reset button itself also often provokes the hang
if the dock is powered on.
The problem seems to come in several levels of intensity. At first I
though it might be heat related, but sometimes it works hot and fails
when cool. When the system is being most cooperative several power
cycles
will work, but a reset will often hang. When it is being less
cooperative
only one in several power cycles will work without hanging and every
reset
will hang unless the power to the dock is off. Sometimes the Toshiba
screen
with dock picture is corrupt with extra red pixels here and there, and
"Starting Windows 98" comes up as "arting Windows 98." Usually once DOS
or Windows is running everything seems to be fine, but sometimes the
Windows
screen becomes corrupt and Windows hangs (even here powering down the
dock
seems to unhang Windows, though it crashes soon thereafter).
The two new docks that display these problems have serial numbers
beginning
with X8. The older one that works perfectly no matter how many times I
reset it, power-cycle it, or leave it running for hours has a serial
number beginning with 98. The Libretto by itself never shows any such
problems. I have tried updating the Libretto BIOS to several versions
including 8.00, but it has not helped.
Has anyone seen anything like this? Could the newer docks be somehow
slightly incompatible with an "older" 110? (It can't be much older as
neither the computer nor the dock was made for too long.) I don't know
to what extent the computer's internal bus is extruded out through the
expansion connector, but it almost feels like a bus timing issue.
I vaguely remember something that suggested that the dock has some
non-volatile
configuration memory. The note talked about changing a dock's
identification
number so Windows could associate two different hardware configurations
with
two different docks. Unfortunately, I can't find this note anymore. If
there
is non-volatile memory, perhaps it is somehow misconfigured?
Dan Lanciani
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