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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:16:44 -0800
Hi, I have it on a battery system big enough to run my Kenwood through an entire contest weekend, so I have confidence that there are plenty of amps & volts for it. The connections are solid too. The Flex does power up and I hear one relay click when it does.
Removing the monitor from the computer didn't make any difference. Shoot. The cable is whatever they send with it, I assumed they wouldn't send me junk! It has two ferrites on it, which I assumed went on the computer side of the connection. Using an AM radio near the monitor and computer I find no unusually high amounts of hash. There's some of course, but it's undetectable on a radio a few inches away. So here's the rest: XP sp3 32bit FlexWire drivers 3.4.0 Radio firmware should be whatever they shipped it with, it's one day out of the box and now I can't possibly tell you. Powersdr 1.18.2 Texas Instruments OHCI firewire controller Thanks guys, Matt On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Dudley Hurry <jhu...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > Matt, > > Lots of things can go wrong, but before anyone can help, Inquiring Minds > Need to Know.. > Exactly what versions of the > What OS? Service Pack? > FireWire Driver? > Firmware on the radio? > PowerSDR? > What kind of FireWire card? > > First check the FireWire driver (the blue icon on your desktop) see if > basic communications is happening with the radio. If not, reboot the > computer and power down the radio and back up. > What might have happened when you started the new screen, the video memory > stepped on the FireWire driver in memory, just a guess. > Let us know, we try to answer. > > 73, > Dudley > > WA5QPZ > > > > kd0...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Got my F3K in the mail yesterday, and took a little time this >> afternoon to try it out. >> >> It worked fine for quite awhile, I got VAC going and com0com, got >> transmit going into the dummy load and it all worked pretty good with >> a few easily solved issues along the way. >> >> But then I decided to install my second monitor so I could keep the >> radio controls up while working on dm780 and rearrange the desk a >> little. >> >> Upon rebooting, the F3K can't be found anymore. Opening the >> "FlexRadio" blue icon gives "No devices found" Tried calling support >> but they must be busy or out early. >> >> I've tried: >> >> - Checking the firewire cable at least 4 times. It's correctly >> inserted, the only difference is that before it was coiled up (the >> flex was right above the computer) and now it's stretched a little to >> 3 feet. >> >> - Checked that my firewire controller is ok. The controller shows up >> in windows device mgr with no conflicts. >> >> - Removing the FlexRadio drivers, disconnecting the F3K from the >> computer, installing the drivers, reconnecting, and powering up. >> Nothing. >> >> - I thought maybe my battery's 12.6v was not enough to get the device >> to initialize and talk. So I boosted it with a charger to 13.6v and >> this doesn't make any difference. >> >> Everything else on the computer is plugged in right where it was >> before I moved things. The only difference between A and B is a >> second monitor is now on the desktop. >> >> Is firewire really this flaky? Any ideas to try out? >> >> 73, >> Matt >> ai1p >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/