Hi Lee Yes, I have and it works fine. However, I do not feel that I am wasting everyone's time. Moving back to XP is a step backwards for a number of reasons. If that is the only answer, that I will pack the hardware back up tomorrow and ship it back to Flex.
In order to make this entire solution function correctly the hardware and the software must work together. Compiling the software such that it works on both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems is a function of the product. If Flex decided to sell the sdr3000 with a computer as an entire solution and that is the only way it is supported, then fine, I would agree, however, that is not the support model they chose to execute. They claim it will function on Vista 64. That was the first question I asked when I placed the order. You can't sell a niche hardware product like this and totally ignore the desktop and say "that's the customers problem". The goal is to get this functioning reliably on Gateway laptop with 4G of ram, T5750 @ 2Ghz Intel Core Duo CPU and a Firewire Express Slot adapter. If you have read the entire thread, you will have seen that it ran fine for about 5 days while I was travelling. Then, from 1 day to the next, PowerSDR failed to load. Now, software does not wear out the last time I checked. Yes, something changed. But the question is ... what? The only thing I think I did was to start PowerSDR without the radio turned on once. Also, on some 64 Bit systems, the drivers are digitally signed and others they are not with the same installer. The question is why? You do make a good point though. I will try it again on the xp system (which I have not had a chance to do) and see if it is the hardware. Mike VA3MW http://walkerphoto.blogspot.com/2009/07/remote-ham-radio-operating.html -----Original Message----- From: Lee A Crocker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 05:52 To: Flexradio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Some initial comments Have you tried running the F3K on a win XP 32 bit computer? (the O/S that most people are using) If you have not then your presumption that something is wrong with the software has not been proven, and you are wasting everybody's time. I happened to have a diode fail on the firewire port of my F3K and it gave these precise symptoms. It occasionally would happen to connect to the firewire driver but most of the time it did not. All the attitude in the world is not going to fix a blown diode, and neither is it a substitute for a systematic approach to trouble shooting a problem 73 W9OY _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to [email protected]
