MSefi.com read only forum (Jan.15,2018)

I finally gave up on trying to get my USB to serial to work and dug up an old laptop that has XP and a DB9. Everything is A ok with it and everything shows up as it should. I have good voltage and everything.

I ran the port check and it comes back as

Bowlings & Grippo version 2.xxx or 3.000

It ...

I have done everythig that you said and changing com port does no good. If I run port check it just comes back with:

com3 opened
9600 baud
"s" ing 's'
115200 baud
"s" ing 's'

1 valid port found

I am seriously out of my league on this part of it.

Well I am stuck again and am wondering if I cooked my processor. Instead of soldering the 40 pin socket to the board I soldered the CPU instead. I have no clue why but that is what I did. Anyway I spoke to Matt and this seemed to be OK so I continued with the build. I noticed that I could not test ...

I spoke to Matt Cramer at DIY and there is no problem with it being soldered. I do lose the oppertunity to replace it or upgrade later on if I wish to do so. That really is not my interest so I am going to continue on. What a relief though.

My main concern was that I was going to lose the MSnS ...

The good news is I have only soldered the CPU and 9 pin and 37 pin connecters. That is it. I thought about cutting the cpu leads as close to the board as possible on the socket side and the using tweezers to pull the opposite end while adding a solder gun heat to them. If the CPU is OK then I would ...

Well today I decided to start assembly of my MS 2.2. For whatever reason I made an epic mistake or maybe it is not so bad but I figure it was designed a Specific way for a reason.

Any way I got the 37 and 9 pin conecters in with ease and after watching a short tutorial on how to properly solder my ...