I should also address that three different brands of firewire cable have been tried at this point, none of which make any difference- once the thing goes bad it's bad until a full 8 hours or more of rest. Apparently there's some capacitor discharging in there which eventually lets things reset and then it usually works properly at that point.
Incidentally, I just turned on the Flex as I sit here typing, and it initialized. On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 7:08 PM, <kd0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Neal for the very sensible idea, but I think I've ruled that > out as this problem has occurred on two completely different computers > (same chipset though). If the computers both have an identical design > flaw, that seems possible, but the far more likely situation seems to > me that the Flex is the side with the issue at this point. > > Currently this machine is running Windows 7, with the high performance > power profile, so I'm not really sure what further I can do. > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If the green LED in the granite digital cable is what you are referring to, >> the voltage on the PC firewire jack is what turns it on, so when it goes lit >> for 5 seconds and turns off, it would lead me to believe you have a funky >> firewire port on your PC. I have seen some cases where the port is partially >> covered by computer case overhang or the spacers between the slots so the >> plug does not go in all the way into the jack, which also could be your >> situation. I would try a different firewire card if you can. >> >> In the XP control panel for Power, select the one where its says Always >> powered up (or something similar, I am not near an XP machine at the >> moment). Since you are not using USB (i.e.m 1500) then I would not suspect >> the USB power management in XP. >> >> 73 >> Neal Campbell >> Abroham Neal Software >> www.abrohamnealsoftware.com >> (540) 645 5394 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:35 PM, <kd0...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> As I dreaded, my Flex is unusable this weekend. Well, on the bright >>> side, it did give me a chance to try all of these suggestions, and >>> nothing worked. >>> >>> Tried setting power profile to "high performance" >>> >>> Tried manually disabling the firewire device in the device manager and >>> re-enabling. >>> >>> Tried rebooting and power cycling (which I've done a lot before to no >>> avail, but why not) >>> >>> Boy, this sure is discouraging. >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Tim Ellison <telli...@itsco.com> wrote: >>> > As a matter of practice, I turn off all Power management energy saving >>> > features by running in the high performance mode and then manually set my >>> > monitors to blank out after 30 minutes to save the LCD panels. >>> > >>> > >>> > -Tim >>> > >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz >>> > [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of jim >>> > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:33 AM >>> > To: 'Bill Bordy, NJ1H'; 'Matt Steven AI1P' >>> > Cc: flexradio@flex-radio.biz >>> > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] The mystery of the "Sporadic F" >>> > >>> > On and F5Ka with AMD64x2 asus mobo XP sp3 or WIN 7 home. >>> > >>> > I have also noticed M$ XP and Win7 do not always wake every part of the >>> > PC after a "sleep". >>> > >>> > Usually a reboot solves. >>> > >>> > Jim - W4YXU >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >>> > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >>> > 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 >>> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >>> 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 FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz 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/
