Karl, I have the com port radio communications working. Even my DIGI 8P board came up with the XP64 drivers. I haven't hooked rotors or anything up to them yet.
I had to do some fumbling around with the RADIO.INI file. VISTA didn't recognize my ADMINISTRATOR privileges correctly and I had to edit the file outside of the DXBase 2007 directory. That was sort of stupid. I think it is a slight bug in VISTA permissions. I've been finding all sorts of little things like this, I'm sure they are working on them. I select 5C for my 7800 so the address is in common with writelog my contest software. (which I haven't attempted to load yet) To move my Access database I burned a CD and then copied it into the DXBase 2007 directory; That didn't go well either. The software couldn't find the file! I had wrote over an empty K0DD empty database that DXB had found and it kept finding the EMPTY FILE even though the large full one would show up in the directory. I don't think Vista even knows what its doing. I deleted file and made sure both were gone, rebooted and RECOPIED the big file and that time it viewed in the DXB selection window. This is really weird stuff.... Then I registered the com ports selecting XP as the operating system and everything just came right up. I haven't gone all through the features of the software and just got a printer hooked up. MY scanner doesn't have VISTA drivers and HP isn't making any. Well, when looking on the website it automatically came back and said your device is over 7 years old buy a new one. Well I use it maybe once every two months and its still like brand new. I will attempt to use XP64 drivers and think about another brand than HP if it doesn't work. That "Go BUY A New One" really rubbed me the wrong way. BOB DD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert B. Bonner Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:38 AM To: 'Karl Geng'; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 and VISTA 64 bit problem - solution found That will be an easy fix to the REG DISK to automate that procedure. I was also working on that track when I got your email Karl. Great news. I was able to get mine up here also. I still haven't put my computer in the rack and tried the COM port radio communications yet. Did you get yours running? I wasn't able to copy and paste the registration entry... I had to type it by hand, that was fun. MAYBE you found a trick I didn't see... Also MY 8 com port DIGI board doesn't have new VISTA drivers yet, however the tech guys said the XP ones work, but I don't know if they knew I was running 64 bit, because I had asked them BEFORE I actually had bought 64. I just got the database transferred over and its all up now. I can slide this computer in and see what else is broke. BOB DD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Geng Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 5:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dxbase] DXbase2007 and VISTA 64 bit problem - solution found problem: DXBase cannot find the key and therefore stays in Trial mode. solution: The software cannot handle the automatic placement of the key in both the 32 bit and the 64 bit registry. Therefore it is necessary to make a modification to the 64 bit registry in VISTA 64. BACK UP THE REGISTRY FIRST ! 1) go the system prompt 2) click on "start search" and type in regedit and do a "enter" 3) go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and click on it 4) find the folder "Wow6432Node" and in it place a new folder "Scientific Solutions" and into this one another " Dxb2007" 5) in that folder create a new entry called "Key" (you will have to rename the new key#1 into Key) 6) go under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to the existing 32 bit folder that says Scientific Solutions and under Key copy the text string associated with it, 7) go back to the new folder created in the Wow6432Node as Key and past the text value into it. 8) close the registry Restart DXbase2007 and it will work. 73 de Karl N1DL ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected]
