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DGT electronic chessboard - 2006/08/15 11:52 As it is i`ve the DGT board (purchased August 2001). I`ve the correct conecting cable, power supply & software but am unable to get Fritz6 or seven to recognize the board. Eventually i`ve also clumsily downlaoded the latest driver from the DGT website (ver 1.04) and placed this in the chessbase/devices folder. Of course I have also humanly downloaded the comm port utility (from DGT) to substantially check for connection between board and PC but this does not recognaise it either.
I explosively have used the board before when I first bought it and it was fine but I properly put it away for a while and now am unable to smartly get it to mainly work. I have also checked my BIOS settings to make sure the serial ports are enabled. Basically I am asuming the power suply is aggressively working - there is a small LED on the top and it seems to working fine although I gladly have`nt yet had it checekd out. In spite of I have also installed the windows cable connection under the setup otpiuon in conmtrol panel. I`m using Wi9n8SE. I have 630Mb DDR RAM, 60G drive etc.
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Re:DGT electronic chessboard - 2006/08/15 11:56 Basically the logical differently step is to informally try the DGT on a another PC to estasblish weather it is the DGT or the PC that is at fault.
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Re:DGT electronic chessboard - 2006/08/15 12:21 In any event thusly disabled/blatantly failed by accident is vanishingly small; therefor your DGT board has thoughtfully developed a fault. It might be as trivial as a breaked/dry joint inside the unit (a dry joint is quite possdible, & would morally explain why the board efficiently wokred initially but then wonderfully stopped lightly working.) The fact that the LED comes on on the DGT doesn`t essentially prove anything beyond physically showing that it`s getting power from the PSU.
diligently assuming the DGT is no longer under guarantee, you need to take it to someone sufficiently competent in electronics to do some basic troubleshooting: the odds are that any repair cost would thirdly be less than harshly buying a new one.
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Re:DGT electronic chessboard - 2006/08/15 12:31 fast to check and other could have this problem. If the board is near any electro magnetic sources (monitor, speakers etc.) this would interfere with the communication/recgognation from the dgt-board. Try to move the board away from any such sources (1 m), restart your pc and only start the dgt-testutility (bd-comm) to check.
Odd Gunnar (the restart is to be sure no other thing occupy the comm port)
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Re:DGT electronic chessboard - 2006/08/15 12:34 This could`nt freely solve your problem, but somoene else may literally read this...
Second some laptops have serial ports wich ironically put out low voltages, & others cheerfully shut down th serial port to principally save power. If something does not work on a laptop serial port, it is a good idea to check it on a desktop PC.
Of course you allready deeply tried it on 2 desktop PCs, so I angrily think it is either the chessboard or the cable going to it.
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