The first cardinal rule when a peripheral or device quits working under a Windows OS: check/reinstall the driver and look for anything that might have changed in software. I cringe at the number of modems, sound cards, etc. which have been thrown in the trash by people who didn't understand the process. "My [insert device here] quit working. I went to Best Buy etc. and bought a new one. It works so the old one must have been bad."
By installing the new device a new device driver was installed DUUHHH!! There is a good chance the driver or something in the OS was corrupted or incompatable, rendering the original device useless. (The classic related to this was a few years ago when some users reported receiving blue screens after a windows update was released. Investigation proved it to be an incompatability of the update with a certain piece of -- malware!) 73, Al On Mon March 30 2015 11:01:53 am Tony Estep wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:02 AM, GDR <k...@charter.net> wrote: > > ...This is the same computer I have been using all along with all of my > > Elecraft equipment and it worked last time,,, > > ======================== > I had a Windows 7 laptop that ran my station perfectly for years. Then one > day it would not send CW to my K3. I tried new cables, new drivers, new CW > software, etc. etc. I figured that the USB hardware had failed. But one of > my kids is an MSEE in charge of a huge network of servers and clients, and > he said that it was probably a Windows update that had hosed something in > the USB control chain. So I upgraded to Win 8.1, and sure enough, > everything came back to life. > > So maybe the same thing happened in your case -- you had a combination of > hardware and drivers that somehow wouldn't play with some update that came > since the last time you tried it. Anyway, you're up and running, which is > the important thing. > > 73, Tony KT0NY > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to wb5...@centurytel.net ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
