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Documentation Number PPC2095 Manual 

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The objective of the PC Port Checker is to determine if the 

parallel and serial ports on your PC are functioning correctly.  It is 
not intended to be a complete diagnostic tool for analyzing the PC 
ports, but rather a quick go-no-go test.  
 
 

 

Copy the software file (supplied with your port checker) 

"PORT_CK.EXE" and the file "PORTFIND.EXE" onto your 
computer.  Execute "PORT_CK.EXE".  The program 
"PORTFIND.EXE" is used by the "PORT_CK.EXE" program.  The 
port checker software will automatically determine which ports (both 
parallel and serial) your computer has installed.  The software 
displays the ports and their addresses.   
         
 

If, after executing the port checker software, your computer 

does not indicate that there is a port where you think there should 
be, that is a good indication that the port is either improperly installed 
or bad. 
 
 

 

The port checker software will guide you through the test.  You 

simply install the port checker board on the port to be tested, and 
select the proper test number to start the test.  Since some 
computer ports do not require or support all the "standard IBM" 
handshake lines, we recommend that shortly after your computer is 
set up, that you run "PORT_CK.EXE ".  You will then have a record 
of how your ports initially tested in the file "PORTCK.DAT".  
Thereafter, if you do a port check, you can compare the results to 
the initial check.  If the initial port check fails, you should determine if 
the failure is by design or due to an actual failure.  Refer to the 
specific operator's manual on the port being tested.  The port 
checker is designed to check any "standard IBM" port and they 
should pass the test.