Hi I’m not sure I can be of much help. I typically run several dozen serial ports on various machines without much trouble at all. They *all*:
1) Are under XP or Win-7 (no Vista) 2) Run FTDI drivers and nothing else 3) Get the drivers straight from FTDI My case is so far off from your case that I don’t think it’s doing you any good … Bob > On May 29, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Cash Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been plagued with hard crashes of the computer when plugging in and > unplugging USB devices. I have generally determined that some of the USB to > serial devices are the worst offenders. I am also suspicious of some of the > hubs. I wander if even the operating system is partly to blame. > > I'm using Windows Vista, and have several different USB to serial adapters. > Most are Silicon Labs and Prolific. I thought I had the problem resolved > with Prolific by over-riding the driver and installing an earlier version > but Windows may have updated the driver, that seems to be a common problem. > > I'm coming to time-nuts because I remember that at least one member had a > very large number of adapters on one computer, so I'm hoping to find some > help. I don't generally seem to have trouble with other USB devices, just > the serial adapters. > > One further issue, the COM ports are marked in use from 3 to 50+ and I'm > only using at any one time 3 or 4. Can I clean up the assignments and can I > make the assignments static after connect and reconnect or restarting the > computer? > > -- > S. Cash Olsen KD5SSJ > ARRL Technical Specialist > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
