Re: Upgrade of Computer on Beckman-Coulter XL

From: Chris Worth (caw@bcc.louisville.edu)
Date: Tue May 11 1999 - 16:08:34 EST


Couldn't you disable the USB port(s)??

hardware and installed it anyway.

Chris



On Mon, 10 May 1999 07:58:48 -0500, Gary Durack wrote:

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>I have not followed this discussion in detail, but if you are choosing your
>own computer to upgrade the XL you must be able to manually define I/O
>address, IRQ and DMA interrupts for the ISA bus. I tried to use a newer
>DELL and there was no way to lock out the IRQ which the XL data acquisition
>PCB requires. This Dell always asigned the needed IRQ to a universal serial
>port and it could not be maI had trouble with an IR port a while back that simply wouldn't go away.
Really really irritating.  Every reboot windows "found" the new
de to work as the acquisition computer on the
>XL.  As vendors try to make their systems more plug and play they become
>more difficult to manually configure.  Be sure the system BIOS allows you
>to block out these hardware settings for the ISA bus.
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>gary
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>Gary Durack
>University of Illinois Biotechnology Center
>voice (217) 244-0559  fax (217) 244-0466
>durack@uiuc.edu
>http://www.life.uiuc.edu/biotech
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