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Re: Ok... now I feel dumb.

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Greg E. Priest-Dorman wrote:
> >>>>> "Cowgirl" == Cowgirl the MindWalker <> writes:
> Cowgirl>   I should just be able to leave the HD and floppy in my
> Cowgirl> desktop PC, leave the power hooked up and attach the data
> Cowgirl> cables to the parvus right?  Power up the desktop
> Cowgirl> fully... then power up the parvus.  I try that and nothing
> Cowgirl> happens.
> What you described doing does work for me.
> A few things to check:
> Be *sure* you have the cables in their correct orientation.  I have on
> occation plugged them in backwards (on the drives, not the parvis
> board as the drives are not always keyed).
> Is the board getting power?  (Confirm by seeing if there is power on
> the  board, test at j22 (rev C or rev D scalable I)

  Board is getting power... but doesn't seem to be doing anything. :(

> What card is in the scalable I?  Could it be defaulting to LCD output
> only?
> Is the card seated in fully?

  The CellPC card is seated fully...  But how does one check/change the
video output from LCD to reg. VGA?  I've never have that problem before.
But then again... I've never had a problem before with a parvus.  My last
one was basicly "plug and use".

> Is there a blown fuse on your power board (silly, but it can happen)
> If I recal you use a chip in your U8 socket, are the jumpers(j20) set
> correctly to handle that? Is the chip in correctly and fully seated? 

  Ok... stupid question: Where does one find the "fuse" on a parvus?
<girlish grin> I don't see or know of any on the Scalable I...

  And the DOC2000 I have in U8 is in correctly and the jumper seems to be
set right.  I even tried removing the DOC and reseting the jumper just to
get the thing to boot hopefully... but nothing.

  The only thing I can think of that could be wrong... <And please say
this isn't the case because the stores are closed right now> Does the
Parvus NEED a battery to even boot?  The battery that I had installed on
J8 is dead.  But I figured that it should at least boot without it, right?

> Tell me more and perhaps I can help (I am also a scalable I user).
> Greg

  I figure if this doesn't work soon.... I'll just go out and buy try
using a Mighty Mite.  I've made enough pc's from them... but I'd rather
not have to use a board that big. And I like using the parvus PD1, makes
life easy.

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