JP1 Remotes

Hi Guys,

This isn't quite what this forum is for, but I do need some computer help for my new JP1 toys.

I fried my serial port when I picked gave it a static electricty shock. The parallel port works fine.

I'd really like to have 2 serial ports on my computer. One for my IRSA and one for my JP1.x cable.

This is a 6year old Win2k machine.

Do I have to replace my parallel/serial card? I'm scared that when I do this my Parallel JP1 cable is not going to work? I'd be really bummed! I'm a real nervous nelly when it comes to hardware! I hate it!

Any guidance or recomendations?

Have an available USB port?

These are HIGHLY recommended in the HA community:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0095963362

Of course there are the single port ones, but results seem to vary - these are sure cheap enough with a good name:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0093422491

GLT

Some of the JP1 toys are not TRUE serial devices. Tommy played some tricks. I absolutely need a real serial port for my IRSA adaptor.

do you have an ISA bus?

I think I may have an old ISA card lying around that I can give to you. It won't fit into a PCI only machine though.

If you open the box and see a bunch of slots where the cards go, PCI slots are white, ISA are usually black.

Thanks UncleMiltie

Actually, now that I looked at the back a little closer it appears that the port that I burned is plugged into the motherboard.

I need is to know what kind of bus I have? How can I tell?

I can buy the card, but I'm going to put it in myself. I just afraid. I can follow directions.

I'm rather relieved to have figured out that my parallel port can remain undisturbed.

Could it be just the RS232 level driver chip that is blown, but the controller is okay? Just replace thee driver chip then.