Does my machine need repair?

[John Munsch]

A few months ago I tried to plug a printer cable (with an Apple Imagewriter
on the other end) into my Amiga 2000. I did it with the machine on because I
unplug/plug stuff from/to my serial and parallel ports on my PC/AT clones at
work all the time without problems. With the Amiga this is apparently not a
good idea. I saw a 1/4" long spark between the cable and connector and then
the machine rebooted.

However, I was still able to print to my CGP-220 printer and capture sound
using a friend's Perfect Sound audio digitizer. I figured it was OK. Until
last night, when my new DigiView (which works fine on a friend's 2000)
refuses to digitize ANYTHING on mine. If I try to get a histogram it shows
NO samples at all. If I try to digitize it HANGS MY MACHINE! I checked the
signal being fed to it from my color splitter and it appeared to be a perfectly
normal grayscale picture.

My question:
Is it possible for me to have damaged my parallel port in such a
way that DigiView will not work but still be able to print and
digitize using Perfect Sound?

John Munsch

[Aaron Hightower]

>
>My question:
> Is it possible for me to have damaged my parallel port in such a
> way that DigiView will not work but still be able to print and

I don't know, John.. but...
I had a problem once where I could print on my Star SG-10 printer, my Canon
PJ-1080A (same as Radio Smack's CGP-220), and digitize with Perfect Sound 3.0,
but I could not communicate with ParNet. The problem was a bad parallel port in
my Amiga 1000 (that I am guessing I created by plugging in/out my Perfect Sound
digitizer V[1-2].? .. :-) )

It could very well be your parallel port (IMHO.)

>
>John Munsch

Aaron Hightower