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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: Blagus on November 08, 2011, 06:54:45 am
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Previously, I had TI-82 Stats.fr which is actually TI-83 Plus limited to basic TI-83 software, without flash support, etc...
The cable I made - parallel link, with cut-off original calc-to-calc cable - was working perfectly with it.
Then I got TI-83 Plus. The cable was too short, but calc was detected.
So I decided to extend cable. I didn't do anything except extending wires. I double checked all connections, diodes, resistors and everything was OK. But still, ever since I plugged that into calc and PC, there's nothing I can do to connect to calc via parallel link.
I tried reverting to original short cable, replaced diodes, replaced resistors, checked everything but nothing helps.
Interestingly, W32tran8x detects cable, and when I short the cable itself, it reports "Short circuit in cable or calc connected". But when I plug calc in, nothing happens and it doesn't show short circuit warning.
(Update) Of course I use TiLP to work with calc, but w32tran8x gives me this cable check feature.
So what's wrong? Is it possible that something inside calc is burned, and what?
P.S. I also ordered USB connectivity kit from eBay and I'm waiting for that to arrive.
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What is w32tran8x? Use TiLP
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What is w32tran8x? Use TiLP
Of course I use TiLP. I just use w32tran to check the cable. So do you have any idea what's the problem?
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Nope , can you still turn your calc on/off?
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Yes, calculator works perfectly except that I can't connect to PC. As I said, when I short circuit cable, it reports short circuit but when calc is plugged it, it's not detected neither by TiLP or W32Tran8x...
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Anyone with some idea?
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If you had more than one calc, you could try connecting it to each other.
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Looks like parallel port is faulty, I got silver USB link today and everything works fine.
(Thanks to admins for lock thread ability, I got used to it being moderator on other forum :P )