Re: [Thinkpad] Need help testing serial port on TP 600X

i should have read THIS post before i rambled in the last
post..

but it IS a loopback connector and i see i DID recall how it
was done..! :-)

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
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bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bytheway" <Richard.Bytheway@bede.co.uk>
To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:50 AM
Subject: RE: [Thinkpad] Need help testing serial port on TP
600X

> If you get a 9 pin D connector of the appropriate gender,
and solder pins 2 and 3 together you get a loopback
connector.
> Plug it into the port, fire up Hyperterminal, choose a
direct connection to whatever COM port you want to test, set
all hardware handshaking off, turn local echo off, connect
and type.
>
> If the port it working, you should see what you type.
>
> Richard.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dr. Jeffrey Race [mailto:jrace@attglobal.net]
> > Sent: 22 July 2003 4:25 pm
> > To: scoug-help@scoug.com; Thinkpad Users Group; POSSI
Newsgroup
> > Subject: [Thinkpad] Need help testing serial port on TP
600X
> >
> >
> > I think there is a hardware failure of the serial port
on the rear of
> > my Thinkpad 600X but can find no way to test it.
Unlike the
> > 600E, the
> > 600X includes no test routine in Easy-Setup; the manual
says to use PC
> > Doctor when booted to Win98. However PC Doctor appears
to have no
> > test routine for the serial port that I can find.
> >
> > So I am casting about for ideas how to test so I can if
necessary
> > return the unit to IBM for warranty service.
> >
> > From a DOS prompt I get:
> >
> > 22:20 H:\THINKPAD>ps2 se on
> >
> > OK
> >
> > which suggests the serial port is activated in the BIOS.
However I
> > cannot use it to access any hardware device.
> >
> > So, first, am I missing anything about activating the
port?
> >
> > Second, assuming the port is theoretically active, how
may I test?
> > I'd welcome recommendations for port-testing software
and
> > wiring diagrams
> > for a loopback plug which I could make with my breakout
box.
> >
> > If someone has a small testing program, feel free to
e-mail
> > as attachment.
> > (Or, point me to a d/l URL.)
> >
> > I can boot this machine to Win98, Win3.11 and OS/2 Warp
4.
> >
> > Thanks for all help.
> >
> > Jeffrey Race
> >
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