the 10th digit is on the chassis label Robert tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx H & H Electronics Inc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ohio Consumer Electronics" <samurai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Tech Assist" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:20 AM Subject: [TechAssist] Chipper Check wows > I'm a little embarrassed to have to ask about this - I'm usually pretty good > with computers. I installed the latest CC software from Thompsons website - > version 1.84. I can't establish communications with the Chipper Checker. > It fails all diagnostics. I ran Chipfix.exe and I am supposed to be able to > toggle the pins on the parallel port but they don't - nothing will toggle. > I've changed the port type in the computers bios setup to each selection > with no effect. I've checked the chippercheck.ini file to make sure it's > using the correct port and it is. I've tried installing it on two different > computers and neither works. > Finally I wiped out the program and installed the older 1.83a version and > it works fine... > The 1.83a version has less chassis listed and when I entered the serial > number of the set I'm trying to fix it says something about alpha-numeric > serial numbers are all 10 digits and numeric S/Ns are 9 digits. I'm looking > at the S/N on the set and it is alpha-numeric and it's only 9 digits. The > program did allow me to proceed only after I added a '0' at the end of the > S/N to make it 10 digits.. > Has anyone been able to get the version 1.84 working? I'd sure like to > know the secret! > Thanks much! > > Joel Jacobs > Ohio Consumer Electronics > Pickerington, Ohio > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/