3d_danny
08-20-2005, 05:47 PM
Not having a very good day....
Lightning hit both my shop and house.(almost a direct hit...hit a tree 5 foot from the house.)
It blew about a half a dozen breakers, smoked 4 phones and the worst of all, cooked all 5 of my computers... My main developement computer smells like burnt toast... It took out every computer, three hub/switches, dsl modem, all surge power strips, and some of the network wiring. Needless to say, I am dead in the water.
I ran down to Best Buy and bought a cheap eMachine just to test some of the hard drives and monitors.
Unbelievably, all of the hard drives survived. When looking in the cases, there are all kinds of exploded chips and capacitors. The surge suppressors didnt do much.
When the storm hit, I ran out to the shop and pulled the disconnects on the ShopBot before the lighting hit. I am hoping it survived. The computer that runs it didnt make it.
My problem is with this eMachine, I cant get the IOGear USB-Serial driver to load. Does anyone have any suggestions as how to get it loaded. I got onto the IOGear web site and not much usefull info there.
Is anyone using just a serial cable instead of the USB to serial adapter? Seems like a better solution at this time. I sure would like to test the ShopBot and see if it was hurt.
Dan
Lightning hit both my shop and house.(almost a direct hit...hit a tree 5 foot from the house.)
It blew about a half a dozen breakers, smoked 4 phones and the worst of all, cooked all 5 of my computers... My main developement computer smells like burnt toast... It took out every computer, three hub/switches, dsl modem, all surge power strips, and some of the network wiring. Needless to say, I am dead in the water.
I ran down to Best Buy and bought a cheap eMachine just to test some of the hard drives and monitors.
Unbelievably, all of the hard drives survived. When looking in the cases, there are all kinds of exploded chips and capacitors. The surge suppressors didnt do much.
When the storm hit, I ran out to the shop and pulled the disconnects on the ShopBot before the lighting hit. I am hoping it survived. The computer that runs it didnt make it.
My problem is with this eMachine, I cant get the IOGear USB-Serial driver to load. Does anyone have any suggestions as how to get it loaded. I got onto the IOGear web site and not much usefull info there.
Is anyone using just a serial cable instead of the USB to serial adapter? Seems like a better solution at this time. I sure would like to test the ShopBot and see if it was hurt.
Dan