On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
What are good features for a POST card besides being a Universal board? (dual voltage)
you have to make sure that it won't keep a machine from turning on. I have 5V post cards that when put in some mainboards won't allow them to power up.
Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is?
Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were?
I've seen memory on POST cards, giving scrollback of the last 32 seen codes, but I'm not sure how useful that is..
very useful to me anyway.
Right, for bringing up a board/BIOS I agree it's useful. :) I just thought about the hw store I'm making it for, they only need them for their tech people handling returns.
I figure why not add a few neat features to it as well, since they were considering making large batches and offering them for sale to anyone else.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:07:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
actually, a very handy thing would be a post card with a serial port ...
That's a good idea!
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:55:41AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bari Ari wrote:
With a serial port for output?
yeah. A BASIC Stamp ought to be able to do the deed.
I'll probably just put a PIC there for the serial port and any other peripheral stuff.
Thanks for the ideas!
//Peter