Hello James.

21 Oct 04 19:01, you wrote to me:

 JB> -=> JASEN BETTS wrote to JAMES BRADLEY <=-

 JB>> Hello James.
 JB> How do, JB?

 JB>> Do you see any other corruption of it input....extra or distorted

 JB>> characters? the modem could be faulty...

 JB> Could be a cold solder joint to be sure. Flow control faults should
 JB> show as bad characters, right?

no, as missing characters, anything else and it's some other problem.

 JB>> could be, I know NS-16550AFN is good.

 JB> It's of '99 vintage, and a part of the MB, so I think I'll not chase
 JB> that ghost.

By '99 I think people had stopped using bad UARTS in PCs. By then then they
were building the UART function into one of the main motherboard chips. So,
if it's bad there's little you can do.


Jasen

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