Admin port no longer connects 1

[TheatreGuy]

After ten years I can no longer connect using the admin port on my Magix.

I don't have a spare 355 adapter and I don't have the password to get in using the modem.

I have swapped out computers and the com port is good. I will do some more checking but thought to put this up here so that someone could help me out.

 

[merlinman]

Com ports do die.

However, sometimes you can do MAINTENANCE at the console and RESET THE RS-232 Ports.

It's worth a try.

http://home.comcast.net/~merlinman

 

[dagwoodsystems]

I always begin troubleshooting serial communications errors by first proving/disproving the functionality of your local computer's serial port.

Best way to do this is to short pins 2 and 3 (TX and RX) with a paperclip. Hold it yourself or have a friend with steady hands hold it across those pins--it doesn't matter.

Next, open Procomm Plus, Hyperterminal or whatever...any serial terminal emulator will do (and we don't care what the bit rate is or anything else...leave it all at default for all I care). Next, simply type a bunch of characters or hold down a single key. IF the serial port is working, then you WILL see whatever characters you type echoed back to the screen. This is the effect of shorting Transmit and Receive pins together, and is the most basic way to prove communications out the back of your machine--regardless of what System Hardware Profile or BIOS reports.

Tim Alberstein

http://www.dagwoodsystems.com

 

[TheatreGuy]

Thanks merlinman and dagwoodsystems, I will apply your suggestions and see what we find.

 

[papagigo1]

TheartreGuy,

You might want to look at this thread, I had the same problem and the great people on this forum helped me to at least get in using "assisted transfer" to the *10 modem to do a "back up"


thread689-1614649

Good luck,

Mike

 

[TheatreGuy]

Okay, I took the suggestion to test the serial port on the machine that I had been using and it was bad. That answered the question about that machine but what about the second machine? Turns out that it had a bad serial port, also. What are the chances of that? Now I have a third machine there and it is working fine. Thanks everyone for the advice.