Posts by loobie

My 5680 is the first pc I've owned in a number of years and am counting on some of you pc veterans for help. I do a lot of graphic design and need to keep a quite of few fonts available on my machine. While most mac users are familiar...

I wonder how much those adapters cost. Thank you for your help.

Do the 5680s support scsi? I have an old external zip drive with a 25 pin connection that my computer won't recognize. At first I assumed that it was a parallel device but I have now determined that it is scsi. Please help.

That is very enlightening... I didn't know that about parallel ports. I believe I have indeed done the set up process properly. But for fun, I will try once more. I'll let you know how it works out.

Yes, the parallel port is enabled. Earlier I connected to a printer and it worked perfectly. But to be sure, I went into set up and made sure that the parallel port was enabled. What else could I check?

Yes, I know I need the drivers and like I think I said in the original post, I downloaded them from the iomega site and installed them yet my machine doesn't recognize the drive. It is indeed a parallel connection. I...

I installed an old but fully functional external zip drive including all the necessary drivers but for some reason my 5680 doesn't recognize it. Disk Management doesn't see it. Add Hardware doesn't see it. What's up... Anyone have any...

Ok, I guess I'll just re-install. Lame. Does anyone have experience swapping harddrives with machines? Should I consider this an expected problem? Thanks for the replies guys.

Thanks for helping! I'm sorry for messing up my terminology. i am connecting through a ROUTER that is connected to dsl. If I connect directly to the dsl modem there is no change and (since I have two other machines connect to this...

Yes, I am on a home network with two other machines and yes they are able to reach the net. It is a dsl connection shared with a smc hub. I do have a software firewall but to make things easier I turned it off to no effect. I...