Win 7 may find the drivers on it's own. I'd try that first. Elecraft changed the KUSB they sell from a Prolific to a FTDI chipset circa July 2010. Both drivers are on the site, so if you download them, it's important to know which cable you have.
http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm#kusb 73, Mike NF4L On 2/4/2011 6:49 AM, John K3TN wrote: > I built a new Windows 7 64 bit Pro PC, got all my ham software up and running > and for a brief period of time life was good. A bad RAM module brought that > to a crashing (literally) end. Trying to recover from that I've been having > a series of problems that keep pointing to what looks like the well known > USB/serial port driver kind of problem. > > So, it looks like I'm going to do a complete clean re-install of Windows and > start again. When I bought the K3 in Jan 2010 I bought the generic > USB/serial interface from Elecraft. I had loaded the drivers pointed to from > the Elecraft site - is that the safe thing to use? Somewhere else I saw some > pointing to other drivers. > > I'm not going to even try to install any of these drivers until I'm 100% > sure the Windows 7 setup is 100% stable, but at some point I'm going to want > to update the K3 firmware... > > 73 John K3TN ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
