Many thanks to those who replied to my dilemma, especially good ol' = Firebrick who mailed lots of helpful tips and screen shots directly. So = far it's been a case of one step forward, one step back. Here's the = current situation and how I got there.
1.. Per Bill's tip sheet I checked for the two required driver files, = driverx.sys and driverx.vxd, in the C:\Windows\System32\Drivers = directory and found them both missing. Located the driver files in the = DXbase 2003 directory and copied them to the Drivers directory, which = did nothing at all - still no CW. 2.. Went to Device Manager and checked the Com port addresses, which = seemed to be correct. 3.. Checked the registry and found no DXB98 com port addresses defined = in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\DriverX. = Tried to figure out how that could be and finally decided it must be = pilot error. Originally had DXbase2002 installed and when I upgraded to = 2003 I first installed the new version, verified that the things I was = using worked and then uninstalled 2002. The only thing I can figure is = that when uninstalling 2002 the required registry entries were removed = and 2003 was left high and dry. 4.. Made backups of my .mdb data bases and associated files then = uninstalled and reinstalled DXbase 2003. Verified that the registry = entries are now there and in agreement with my com port addresses in = Device Manager. 5.. Tried to run CW from DXbase2003, again without success. Tried = running CwType in the background and DXbase will now key the rig and = send CW! Tried running MMTTY in the background and DXbase will send CW = with that running as well. So far so good - this is the one step = forward. 6.. The one step backward? I've lost rig control on the Com2 port!!! = It was there before and it still works with Writelog, but I cannot get = DXbase to recognize the IC756PRO. ARRRGH!!! I have a PCMCIA Socket Dual I/O serial port card in the laptop that = configured as Com2 and Com5 when installed. The address for Com2 shows = a range from 02F8 - 02FF. DXbase has the standard Com2 address of 02F8 = in the registry, so I think this is ok. I've tried changing the Port = Setting Flow Control choices from 'Xon/Xoff' to 'Hardware' and to 'None' = with no difference. I made no setting changes in the radio or in the = wiring connections, and like I said Wrirtelog still sees the rig. I've = tried several reboots and cycling the radio on and off, but nothing = works. Anyone ever run into to this or have an idea how to drain this = swamp? Gary AL9A --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
