I found exactly the same. Neither our office DELL nor their
optiplex mini-tower worked. With the Elite listerboard they
even fail to power up due to the high power consumption of
the card. I found an old digital that at least can boot with
the listercard, but I haven't yet tried to hook it up. I'll
give it one more go.
Regards
Gerhard
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Subject: Upgrade of Computer on Beckman-Coulter XL
Author: durack@uiuc.edu at INTERNET
Date: 10/05/1999 19:53
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 made 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.
gary
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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