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From: Pradip Fatehpuria <pradip_fatehpuria@interactive.sony.com>
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.problems.pc
Subject: Re: siocons
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:08:38 -0700
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Chad Meyers wrote:
> 
> After running Siocons, it stops after displaying the baud rate.  [enter]
> has no effect.  All I can do is hit [Esc].  The only way I can get
> siocons to work is if I first run PSComUtil, load and execute a sample,
> exit pscomutil, and then run siocons...After this process it works
> perfectly.  I'm running it from a dos window.  The Yaroze is on COM1 and
> there aren't any conflicts.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Chad


At times I do get the same problem.  This is sometimes due to a loose
connection on the com port or on the back of the playstation.

Whenever that happens to me, I always check these and most of the time,
I found that the connection is slightly loose.  After plugging the
serial cable properly I do reboot my PlayStation as well as the PC and
it seems to work from that point on.

I get this loose cable problems because I use some external drives which
I carry with me home everyday and swapping hardware makes the
connections loose some time.

Please try the above - it may be the case.

I can not think of anything else for now, but I will ask around if
anybody else had similar simptoms.

Pradip K Fatehpuria