Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Craig Venz Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners Subject: Re: starting Problems Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 10:53:05 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 75 Message-ID: <35CF0951.53B006F9@cobite.com> References: <35CD9303.3067@gap.baynet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: snew.cobite.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i586) To: Roman und Gregor Dashuber Roman und Gregor Dashuber wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm still strugglin with my NY. I followed the advice of James > Russel and pushed the cable in the Playstation firmly. After that > i started Siocons again, the >> didn't appear. I pressed enter a > few times (about a minute), but the prompt didn't appear. I > pressed F3 to execute the batch0 file. After that I got the > binary write error as described in my first two Mails. I also > tried out the method George from SCEE told me and restarted the > Yaroze after i've typed "djsetup.bat" and "siocons", but > it also didn't help. I pressed a few times enter but no prompt > (>>) appeared. > > If anyone has got an idea of what is wrong with my NY, pleas help > me. > > Regards, Roman > > e-mail : d-twinz@gap.baynet.de Looking back over a previous note of yours, I noticed you said you were using MS-DOS 7 - correct me if Im wrong but isnt that win95? Anyway, there are a couple of things to consider that could be the cause of the problem, which is that your Yaroze is _definitely_ not communicating with your PC. Make sure you know what all your COM ports are connected to. Since you have MS DOS 7 you have Win95, so boot up 95, and check out what you have your modem (I assume you have one since thats one of the 'requirements' for the Net Yaroze program) and your mouse, and your free COM port are. Do this by checking in the Modems Control Panel to see what port your modem is on, then find out which one your mouse is on, this is either in the Mouse control panel, or on the System control panel under Pointing Devices(?) or something similar. See how many COM ports you actually have. Do you have a free one? A mouse takes away one port, a modem might (see below). Check to make sure the cable is plugged in, that the port on your PC is _really_ COM1, not COM2, or COM3 even, that the com port you have the Yaroze plugged up to isn't disabled in the BIOS (this is a common thing it seems, as internal modems that are in a shipped computer have their own internal com port, and the manufacturer turns off one of the motherboard's built in COM ports so you think you only have 2, when you really now have 3) If you're deadly sure you have the right port, and its not disabled, the next thing you might need to check is whether there is an IRQ conflict between the COM port you're using and one of your other COM ports, or another device. This is only likely if you have three COM ports in your PC (one probably being an internal modem). As COM1/COM3 share the same IRQ, as does COM2/COM4, if you have two devices you want to use at the same time on COM1 and COM3, one of them is going to work and one isnt. So either you can not use the modem and the yaroze at the same time, or you can change the IRQ on one of the ports to a free IRQ. Do this in the Control Panels of Win95 under the System cpanel, right click one of the com ports under the Ports item in the big list of devices. Next thing to try doing is to use a Windows communications program to check the com port you're using. HyperTerm works well, use it to create a 'new connection' and when it asks you what device to use, change the dropdown which says "Connect using:" to COM1. Make the BPS selection 9600, hit OK, turn on your yaroze, and start hitting return in the window when the Green Brick screen comes up. If you get any text, you now know you have the right COM port and you can quit and start using SIOCONS with impunity. It's going to take some messing around to get this to work, I had a devil of a time getting my old 486 to correctly use 3 COM ports simultaneously but it's happy now, as am I. Keep posting if you have more problems, or are confused... or just keep posting. :) Craig