Thanks very much for your most interesting post Pete. Indeed I had a bunch of devices including duplicates of the CyberPro PCI 4S 4 port serial board. Apparently I made an error when installing the board.
One good thing is I found a second serial header on the motherboard. However I still have not gotten CAT to work. I'm going to swap in my spare Mark V - perhaps the CAT port is bad. I'll make a note of that clever devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 line. It will probably come in handy in the future. Jim thanks for the heads up on the many more com ports in DX4Win v8. It would have saved me a lot of trouble but when I saw the business of requiring Admin mode to install (and run?) and placing DX4W in the root directory (both big nonos for me) I lost interest. Also I'm running out of time to learn and convert data for DX4W 8. Larry Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: > Following was just posted on the N1MM reflector - I think it is relevant > to this query: > > "This may be the situation where the low-numbered COM ports are being > reserved bydevices that are no longer present. Here's a replay of W5OV's > e-mail for checking and correcting that: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > And for those who want to clear out those low number ports that don't need > to be cluttering up your Device Manager listing anymore, you can follow > this > process: > > 1. Click Start > 2. Click Run > 3. Type cmd.exe in the textbox and click OK > 4. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 and hit ENTER > 5. Type cd\windows\system32 and hit ENTER > 6. Type start devmgmt.msc and hit ENTER > 7. When the device manager opens, click the View menu > 8. Click Show Hidden Devices > 9. Click on the + sign next to the Ports to see the full list of Com ports > being used. > 10. Highlight the port you wish to delete and then press delete. Accept > when > asked to do so and continue with any more that you wish to delete." > > > 73, Pete N4ZR > New Articles Daily - the Contesting Compendium at > http://wiki.contesting.com > The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at > www.conteststations.com > The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net > > > On 9/17/2009 1:53 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Larry >> Alkoff<[email protected] wrote: >> >> >>> When I viewed the com ports it showed 1,2,3 then 8,9,10,11. >>> >>> Ports 2 and 3 do not exist but apparently something was once assigned to >>> them. >>> >> >> They may be on your motherboard, with no access (cabling) to the >> bulkhead. >> >> >>> DX4Win only goes to 8 so I changed the port number in DX4Win to 8 and it >>> started keying. >>> >> >> DX4WIN 8.0x supports up to 32 COM ports. >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
