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From: wilcox@cfht.hawaii.edu (Dan Wilcox)
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting miniboard V2.0
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Reply-To: wilcox@cfht.hawaii.edu (Dan Wilcox)
Organization: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 20:18:52 GMT
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In article <eLT4oc2w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>, mark@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
(Mark Essenburg) writes:
> Little bit of a trouble shooting problem here.
> 
> Attempted to download code to a recently completed (as yet untested) 
> miniboard V2.0.
> 
> The board (according to the documentation)  appears to properly be in 
> download mode (ie: red led off green led dimly lit)
> 
> DL.EXE sends the bootstrap to the board and the led's flash back and 
> forth one to another for a second or two and then both light up to full 
> intensity and stay there until a reset is applied.  DL.EXE times out and 
> asks if the board is properly connected.
> 
> I belive the cable from the PC to be correct.  I pulled it apart last 
> night and rechecked all the connections.  It appears to be correct.
> 
> Any guesses, anybody?
> 
> Please reply to 74001.2624@compuserve.com
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> mark

I had a similar problem using DLM.EXE .  Sometimes I got a Board memory error.
It turns out that you can not run dlm from a DOS Window.  Got out of windows,
and tried it at the DOS prompt and bingo, it ran perfectly.

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