The biggest things with respect to the PC are: 1. If you have anything besides the Flex on a USB port try to arrange things so the Flex is on a USB hub of its own. You can tell this by looking the Windows Device Manager and watching where things show up.
2. I originally used a P4 similarly configured to yours with my Flex 1500. It worked pretty well but there is a very noticeable difference now that I have switched to a dual core machine. If you decide to replace the machine or motherboard at some point get recommendations here on motherboards with known good (i.e.--LOW DPC latency.) That, plenty of memory and having a USB hub dedicated to the Flex 1500 seems to be the real make/break features for good system performance. This doesn't necessarily mean an expensive motherboard. Just one that is carefully chosen. Neal offers extremely good advice for those building their own and also sells top notch systems as well from what I understand. I would use the latest release candidate from Flex. It will update your BIOS at install time if needed. The Flex 1500 is my first SDR. It is absolutely amazing. Tim, N9PUZ On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just purchased a 1500. I set up a computer ...P-4 3.0 with 2 gb of > ram. The box has a New install of XP-home sp-3. the computer is dedicated to > the 1500 and power sdr only. no virus software, and only the web browser, to > down load files. I have a couple of questions. > 1. keyboard and mouse, better to use the PS-2 connections , have both also in > USB. and keep the only usb connection, for the 1500? > 2. 99% of the 1500's use will be ssb,with that in mind, what will be the most > stable and problem free version of power sdr, to run on the computer? > 3. How do I find out what version of the firmware is on my 1500? the radio > was a rehab from flex ,ordered on Monday from flex,can I assume it has the > latest up grade ,on the 1500. This will affect what software I use? I guess > what Iam asking do I pick and choose software ,or just go with what ever is > on the cd from flex that comes with the 1500. > I will down load and print the latest manual, today for the 1500, > maybe that will answer all my questions,but with developments changing SO > FAST, thought I would ask these questions. > thanks for any and all help on the above. > dale WT4T > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
