[WriteLog] PCI Serial Card Update

Larry Lindblom w0etc@ix.netcom.com
Thu, 08 Feb 2001 00:12:39 +0000


And the best news is with careful shopping you can find this card for Under
$70.00.  I used one successfully with a Soyo K7VIA motherboard and an Athlon 850
Socket A CPU.

73 W0ETC

Larry Benko wrote:

> I have a 3 month old Dell Dimension 4100, 1GHz PC with a 4 port
> Lava Computer PCI card.  No problems with Writelog.  See
> www.lavalink.com  I bought my card from PC Connection.
>
> 73,
> Larry, W0QE
>
> Ron Bethin wrote:
> >
> > Similar experience with my DELL and a SIIG PCI serial board. After powering
> > up and Windows Me was loading, the computer would lockup. Had to reboot in
> > the Safe Mode and use the Device Manger to remove the SIIG PCI Controller
> > and delete the associated device drivers. Tried updated drivers, no joy.
> > Removed the SIIG card and replaced it with a 4 port VSCOM serial I/O board
> > from Byte Runner. Worked right out of the box as it should.
> >
> > Usual disclaimers, just a happy customer!
> >
> > 73, Ron K2VF
> >
> > At 10:05 PM 2/6/2001 -0500, Jim Brannigan wrote:
> > >Everyone's mileage varies......I could not get a SIIG PCI serial card to
> > >work on my DELL with WINMe....
> > >This is the response I received from SIIG tech support (after 3 weeks!!)
> >
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