I have a hp jornada 520 but have lost the serial cable forpc where do i purchase it

You don't need drivers to link your HP Jornada 520 Pocket to your Desktop/Laptop Win 7 PC.

Download & refer to the "HP jornada 520 user manual" @ http://mikechannon.net/holdingfile/HP_JORNADA_520_User_manual_EN.pdf

All instructions are included at "Connecting to your Desktop PC" in the pdf file.

Hope it helps.

Hi,

Are you connecting from dock to USB on computer, or serial to USB via a USB-serial adapter? UBS-serial adapters are notorious for not recognizing attached serial hardware. What kind of errors are the Jornada and the computer throwing? Can you give any specific error numbers?

If you are connecting using the serial cable to a serial port on your computer you need to make sure that the Jornada is trying to connect to the correct COM port (and that the computer is allowing connections through the correct COM port). Do this by:
1. Open Device Manager (R-Click on My Computer - Properties - Hardware - Device Manager)
2. Expand the "Ports (COM)" plus sign
3. Beside each COM port's name it will say (COM#) - the # tells you which port the COM is
4. Go into ActiveSync and open Connection Settings (in the File menu in ActiveSync 4.5 - the latest)
5. Make sure all the check boxes are checked and that the correct number COM port is selected in the drop down menu under "Allow connections to one of the following:"
6. Connect your Jornada via the serial cable, make sure the Jornada is on and connected to power cable (I have had more success with the power on - may or may not affect your problem)
7. Click the "Connect..." button in ActiveSync. The Jornada should be detected.

If your computer has an infrared port you could try that, I have had a lot of success with infrared connections with my Jornada. Also, try installing ActiveSync on another computer that has a serial port and try connecting the Jornada to that computer. It may be a problem with your computer.

An older version of ActiveSync should not make a difference. The facilities are the same, just slightly rearranged.



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This error is a communication problem between your computer and the Jornada. Try these solutions:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bpia2302&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=61677

Has anything changed that caused the problem, eg, installing new hardware, using a different cable to sync the Jornada?

Try a older version of active sync. 3.0 or 3.1

heres 3.1
http://www.tucows.com/preview/32548

Try this link that describes the error you are seeing... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q271300&GSSNB=1

You can buy a USB cable for your Jornada. HP and thrid party vendors sell them. I bought one that has a cigarette lighter adapter to charge the Jornada also.

This may be a simple case of removing all the entire active sync directory. If you used to connect via serial+com it wont be detected on usb. Remove active sync from your pc via the add remove program feture, then reboot and re install. Then run the make a connection again from active sync. Hope this helps

RTM
read the manual.
why not learn to use google, and search for your service manual
hint, its not at HP support ended what 7years ago.
its 16 years old now. why fool with something this old.?
if it works leave it be... no parts now. from HP, only used parts.
many used part are bad.
leaving one thing, google search,

The HP books exit on the web, (not HP)


here is a close match, btw, first google hit,, shock !

http://www.manualsdir.com/manuals/96365/hp-jornada-520.html?page=2