Connection Troubles...Help!
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Hello,
I am new to Basic Stamps so this may be an easy fix, but so far I
haven't had any luck. I just got a StampIISX and connected it like
the manual says, but I keep getting an error "Basic StampIISX
connected to COM2 but not responding, Check power supply." Well I
searched the forum already and tried some of the suggestions: Double
check serial cable, Try dos software, Check power supply. Nothing
seems to work. In the dos software I get a "Hardware failure"
message. I assumed this was the same as the windows message. The
power supply is 200W out of an old pc. I tried +5V at the regulated
pin and +12V at the unregulated pin (regulator is working as I get
+5v out). The serial cable is about 12ft long and I hacked off one
end, soldering breadboard jumpers to the 4 wires I needed for
interface, and soldered DSR and RTS together. I checked all of my
connections twice and I don't have anything else connected to the
Stamp. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks
Matt Fillmore
I am new to Basic Stamps so this may be an easy fix, but so far I
haven't had any luck. I just got a StampIISX and connected it like
the manual says, but I keep getting an error "Basic StampIISX
connected to COM2 but not responding, Check power supply." Well I
searched the forum already and tried some of the suggestions: Double
check serial cable, Try dos software, Check power supply. Nothing
seems to work. In the dos software I get a "Hardware failure"
message. I assumed this was the same as the windows message. The
power supply is 200W out of an old pc. I tried +5V at the regulated
pin and +12V at the unregulated pin (regulator is working as I get
+5v out). The serial cable is about 12ft long and I hacked off one
end, soldering breadboard jumpers to the 4 wires I needed for
interface, and soldered DSR and RTS together. I checked all of my
connections twice and I don't have anything else connected to the
Stamp. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks
Matt Fillmore
Comments
I had this problem and this is was the fix, hopefully it will be the same
for you. In you windows software, go to Edit, Preferences, editor operation.
in the DEFAULT STAMP MODE you should have this set to BS2SX. Hope it works.
Roy
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From: Lina _Chan [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=FstDWSBSSeB9qgAQF8z_AE0Mo2kBQHSA63qU8ZN-hwfuqdfU_K3OgOHvQWyCFExLlIf2YPeixVufjYyJlObVCg]tow_cheng@h...[/url
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>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:26:58 -0000
>
>Hello,
>
>I am new to Basic Stamps so this may be an easy fix, but so far I
>haven't had any luck. I just got a StampIISX and connected it like
>the manual says, but I keep getting an error "Basic StampIISX
>connected to COM2 but not responding, Check power supply." Well I
>searched the forum already and tried some of the suggestions: Double
>check serial cable, Try dos software, Check power supply. Nothing
>seems to work. In the dos software I get a "Hardware failure"
>message. I assumed this was the same as the windows message. The
>power supply is 200W out of an old pc. I tried +5V at the regulated
>pin and +12V at the unregulated pin (regulator is working as I get
>+5v out). The serial cable is about 12ft long and I hacked off one
>end, soldering breadboard jumpers to the 4 wires I needed for
>interface, and soldered DSR and RTS together. I checked all of my
>connections twice and I don't have anything else connected to the
>Stamp. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly
>appreciated. Thanks
>
>Matt Fillmore
>I am using bs2 and I often get these type of errors too. When the pc say
>that the com2 not responsing there are 2 reasons: one is you did not
>connect the RS 232 cable properly to the cpu. Second is you can try to open
>up the cpu and check the connections of the mouse whether it is using com1
>or com2. By the way my cpu needs a 25 pin to 9 pin connector because that
>25pin (male)is the com2. So you can check it out.
>The other reason is that I often have the problem when the stamp ask for a
>power supply. I think maybe your ic chip for bs2sx is spoilt. Cos mine oso
>like that. This problem always occur to bs user. You should be careful when
>giving supply to the stamp.
>lina
>
>
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> Hello,
>
> I am new to Basic Stamps so this may be an easy fix, but so far I
> haven't had any luck. I just got a StampIISX and connected it like
> the manual says, but I keep getting an error "Basic StampIISX
> connected to COM2 but not responding, Check power supply." Well I
> searched the forum already and tried some of the suggestions:
Double
> check serial cable, Try dos software, Check power supply. Nothing
> seems to work. In the dos software I get a "Hardware failure"
> message. I assumed this was the same as the windows message. The
> power supply is 200W out of an old pc. I tried +5V at the
regulated
> pin and +12V at the unregulated pin (regulator is working as I get
> +5v out). The serial cable is about 12ft long and I hacked off one
> end, soldering breadboard jumpers to the 4 wires I needed for
> interface, and soldered DSR and RTS together. I checked all of my
> connections twice and I don't have anything else connected to the
> Stamp. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks
>
> Matt Fillmore
Well I found the problem! I guess before using the 2nd serial port
it really should be enabled in the BIOS! I set it to Auto in the
BIOS and then it showed up as COM5 in the Windows software. The Auto
COM setting didn't work there but as soon as I changed it to COM5 all
was well. Hopefully this info will help others in the future.
Matt Fillmore