Drum roll, successfully accomplished the task at hand. Forgive me my little indulgence and allow me to explain. I have a rather large collection of drivers around here that have been gathering for years already. Now among them is the super pro driver for a dongle from FS. In fact my new policy is not only pull out the non-Microsoft drivers but pull out all of them. Long story short it found the needed files once I told it to scan the entire collection. Now this is strange because earlier I pointed it directly at the location where the required driver was residing and that didn't work. Now did it pick that version or another of the same driver I do not know. Either way it is now working properly and the Captain for now remains on his ship.
This kind of thing has happened in the past when loading a sound card driver on an XP system. I had the exact driver it said it needed but it wouldn't work. Then I found the same driver on another system and that worked. Remind me somebody as to why I do what it is that I do. David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <ow...@jaws-users.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dongle question Clean install first of all. There seems to be some sort of an issue with that particular system, but I'm not done trying as of yet. I spoke to Dennis which interestingly enough only lives about 15 miles from here and he confirmed a few items. First off the windows version should have nothing to do with the problem. The thing that we both found odd is that when the system boots up it says JAWS home addition demo mode. Now that is only on startup, if I go in to the help, about window it says professional serial 801. I admit that gave him a bit of a shock to say the least. It is Friday and I do have a bottle of Captain Morgan out in the kitchen, not yet but it's more of a fallback kind of plan. David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Carlson" <dgcarl...@sbcglobal.net> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Dongle question David, Yes, a call is in order. Ha e you updated it to your latest JAWS version with their provided download? Dave Carlson Oregonian, woodworker, Engineer, Musician, and Pioneer ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ferrin" <ow...@jaws-users.com> To: <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 06:16 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Dongle question It would seem that my hardware dongle has gone bad for some reason or another. Has anybody had this problem before? Obviously it looks like a call to tech support is in order. It must be internal as there is no physical damage to the thing at all, just like when I bought it several years ago. David Ferrin A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked perfectly. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
