do i need buffered jtag?

[wolf_gt21]

Hope i'm posting in the correct section.

I have a simple jtag that i use for my 310.10 receiver and desktop computer. I use the jtag on the EJTAG on top of the reciever not the bottm. It works fine.

Now when i try to do the same thing but using my laptop (parallel port is attatched on the laptop's mother board), it doesn't read the tsop info of the reciever. I am able to program the regual 128 Atmega cards with the laptop, just not able to read the tsop info unless i use the desktop.

I have a 10 pin setup on the EJTAG so i know my jtag is being grounded ( well i hope it is).

has anyone been able to use their laptop to do a jtag. it is just easier for me to use the laptop instead of the jtag, saves me from runnning upstairs and downstairs and up again.

[Ubermaxed]

Some laptops put out 3.3V instead of 5V on the parallel port, so that is probably your problem.

[fubr]

I have done many many 6000 irds and was telling a Friend that the bfl was never needed only on maybe one or two of them.
I made a permanent jtag and put it in his 6000 and fuck me running...it would not do shit!

I did the bfl and the jtag worked like a champ.

Same thing with a 301.013 I had trouble with once....nothing but trouble..]
put the old trusty buffered jtag on it and it worked right aways.
SO to ask do you need one??? no I would not say need some of the best jtaggers here claim they use simple jtags with great success,
some will tell you must use a buffered jtag,
so what the hell do we do???

I am going to say on this one it is just as Ubermaxed says and it is the voltage.
I would also check the port setting in the bios, lots of laptops are disabled by default or have different settings, look for settings like ecc, eep, Bidirectional ect, change them around till one works.

[wolf_gt21]

I am going to say on this one it is just as Ubermaxed says and it is the voltage.
I would also check the port setting in the bios, lots of laptops are disabled by default or have different settings, look for settings like ecc, eep, Bidirectional ect, change them around till one works.

Some laptops put out 3.3V instead of 5V on the parallel port, so that is probably your problem.

Yea i thought it was a voltage problem too..

The bios setting, i never really thought about that. Stupid me, and im an I.T guy

[fubr]

Yea i thought it was a voltage problem too..

The bios setting, i never really thought about that. Stupid me, and im an I.T guyhahaha figures

I just got back from my nephews, his ole lady had a computer she could not get to boot cause her ex had set it up to Lock her out and he was an IT guy.....

while she was explaining to me how smart he was and how he had the computer locked down so tight I was resetting his admin password :)

She was silent for a few seconds while I hit the button to reboot it and I walked out of room. I knew it would reboot LOL I told her HEY when it asks for a password just hit enter :) :)

He had her fooled she thought he was really smart LOL
I told her that was her first mistake.
Of cousre I installed powerspy before I left and set it to stealth mode, one of these days that computer will be back in my hands and I will see every keystroke that little whore made and all the sites she went to LOL

[fubr]

BTW not saying your not smart, just saying sometimes IT and ISS guys over looks things

[wolf_gt21]

so true, mostly the simple things

[skinerd]

It is a known and proven fact that some computers flat will not jtag, we had this conversation a while back. I have one, an old IBM, it unlocks cards just fine but in no case will it jtag anything.