Are your ports virtual ports? USB to Serial conversion? When I had those, every time my cpu rebooted, my virtual serial ports would change...
73, Art W6KY www.w6ky.com ..................................................................................................... To Speak To A Nigerian Prince About Your Health Care, Press '1' Now ________________________________ From: n4dsp <[email protected]> To: Jim Reisert AD1C <[email protected]> Cc: dx4win <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Com Port Issue Hello Jim, as per your instruction leaving it on COM 7,,, I do leave it on COM 7 but upon wakening in the morning it's on COM 3 in Ports of the Device Manager! So in dx4win I set File/Preferences/Radio/COM Port to COM 3 and four hours later in Device Manager it's back on COM 7!! Running Windows 7 Enterprise. Thanks for the other advice. Merry Christmas john On 12/17/2013 10:00 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, n4dsp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Downloaded and installed the USB driver for the Kenwood TS 590S and was >> assigned to COM 3. >> This morning I found the USB driver had been assigned to COM 7. This has >> been occuring the last >> couple of days. How can I keep the driver assigned to one certain port and >> determine what program >> is using COM3? > If you go into the Windows Device Manager, and click on the '+' sign > next to "Ports (COM & LPT)" you will see the port assignments. You > may be able to right-click on one of your virtual ports (like COM7) > and assign it to a different number. But if the radio works OK on > COM7, why not leave it that way? Remember, you can only have ONE port > assigned to a given number. > > I don't have any advice to determine what application is trying to > access COM3 besides DX4WIN. Go through all the DX4WIN preference > tabs, and make sure that all devices are using a unique COM port #. > > If you had created virtual COM ports because you are using a > USB-to-serial cable (or a RigBlaster, microHAM, etc. device), try > deleting all the virtual COM ports, then reboot, then create only the > ones you need. > ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
