probably the 100th time - w.t.f. is wrong with my cable?

[Wespenstich]

Hi Guys,

I'm pretty new to GSM flashing ... tried to flash a 5110 a year ago, fucked it up b/c wrong software ver. and let it be ...
Now i wanna try again on my 6150 ... I still have the cable (one of these cables which are sold on Ebay as "Dejan Flasher Cable & F/M Bus data cable", meaning it has the fone adaptors on one end and you can either use an COM or LPT piece on the other.

The data cable part works fine, I can edit names etc. in the phone.
But when I connect it to the LPT Port (which is LPT 1 set to "bidirectional") flasher478 doesn't recognise the phone ... it asks for the "press power on shortly" and that's it.
When i press the ON button the fone goes on, nothing happens in the flasher software ...
I tried it on the Laptop and on the big machine, same result.
is there any way to check & test the cable? Or have i just missed out on some settings in the flasher programme or BIOS?

Greetinx from Germany

Wespenstich

[wai3000]

are you u sing XP? i think i had the same problem as you

try 200 or win98

[Wespenstich]

arghh ..... really? could b ..... coz when I fucked the 5110 up a year ago it did something to it, otherwise if wouldn't b fucked now ....
Installed XP in the meantime... well, now I'm gonna walk to Redmond and kick the shit out of B.G. .... grrrr

[wai3000]

i think you have got the wrong cable too?
are you using the same cable that you edit names on your simcard to try to read or flash your phone?/
you need a flasher cable
and a M/F bus cable

[Wespenstich]

installed Win98 on the 2nd Partition ...Works fine now .... thanx 4 the hint

[mexusbg]

You are wrong sayin that Flasher doesn't work on XP.
:) :) :) You need just to install USERPORT on XP and it works better than Win95/98/2000. Have fun, and get rid of thaht f*ckin' 98.

[wai3000]

i found i still got errors with winxp even with useport, i use 2000 now and its muich more stable