Black Box 5250, Remote Emulator Card manual Snow appears on the screen, Printer does not work

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

Cursor appears at the top right corner of the screen when emulation starts.

Cause: Invalid station address.

Action: Check the station addresses on the host and in the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s configuration (see Section 6.2.1).

Cause: Damaged cabling or connections.

Action: Make sure that no cables are broken and that all cable connections are tight. Substitute another cable if necessary.

“Snow” appears on the screen.

Cause: Wrong monitor type.

Action: Select Color (IBM) monitor type in the configuration program (see Section 6.2.2)

Printer does not work.

Cause: Printer not configured or configured incorrectly.

Action 1: Make sure that the printer emulation matches the emulation on the host (see Section 6.2.1).

Action 2: Make sure the printer is configured on the host and in the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s configuration (see Section 6.3.3).

Cause: Invalid cable address.

Action: Make sure the cable-address settings on the host and in the 5250 Remote Emulator Card’s software match (see Section 6.2.1).

Cause: Printer is off line.

Action: Make sure the printer is on line and has paper. Send a print screen from DOS to see if the printer is communicating with the PC.

No host communication—emulator will not come on line or cannot be varied on.

Cause: Communication line to/from host not operating properly.

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