I never thought about system voltage/current problems before. This could be a big problem. my creaky 486/66 is doing ok today. but clearly it won't last forever. Chris On 11 May 1999 16:01:04 +0100, Gerhard Nebe-von-Caron wrote: > > > 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 > > > > >______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >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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