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Check your harness
« on: June 18, 2013, 02:59:38 am »
I spent about two hours trying to figure out why my programmer wasn't working right after an update.

I uninstalled/reinstalled nearly every software and driver that was even remotely related. I fiddled with dozens of settings. Rolled my OS back. Tried different tools. Poked and prodded. Until my wife walked up to me and said, "honey, you need to go to bed. Did you try replacing the cable?"

A moments pause. A quick prod with the multimeter......

 :censored: :banghead:

So yeah, check that cabling.

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Re: Check your harness
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 04:23:33 pm »
fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu...!

we all had a discussion a while back about serial cables being bad and/or being crossover (x3 if i recall)

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http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,64079.msg640078.html#msg640078


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Re: Check your harness
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 09:51:19 pm »
Yeah. I really screwed my laptop up fixing this ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. In a moment of pure "genius" I compressed my windows Install f9lder to make room for my test files by offloading it to a DVD-R. But now my DVD burner won't read the discs. It ---smurfing--- read them when I initially created. Probably because they're cheap RIDATA discs. I tested the disc on an external DVD drive attached to an older pc and it read them just fine. Pisses me off because I have to wonder if the driver is finally failing or the discs are too cheap.

Same thing occurred with that old PC and it was stupidly expensive to replace the PATA DVD writer. At least the laptop, uses SATA.

But I digress. I hadn't used the programmer for about a week. The whole assemblage just kind bumbled around my backpack for a week before the software upgrade. I guess it was bound to fail sooner or later.