I was preparing my reply to Mike (see below), and was going over this
saga with another friend; It turns out that I was close, but had MISSED
the exact combination! It turns out that I had TWO BLOWN FIREWIRE
PORTS! One on the back of the HP computer, and the "alternate" firewire
port on my Flex-5000a. (We had also upgraded the Firewire port DRIVERS
on the HP Pavilion computer, after which time, we saw TWO firewire ports
in the DEVICE MANAGER!)
Well, after all this, I went through the whole mess of demonstrating to
Bob how I could use different Firewire cables, different ports on both
the computer and the Flex-5000a... And the radio became recognizable
again. So, maybe the driver upgrade was the issue, maybe not...
The bottom line is that the Flex-5000a is now operational again. Two
points:
1. I will be buying a Firewire PCI card; -WHICH?
2. What folly it was that Flex had added TWO of the Firewire ports!
(Yeah, but it sure came in handy this time!!
-Mike-
----- My previously assembled email to Mike follows --------
Hello, Mike;
I had done this, as you will see below. (The change of computer, to see
if the radio responds.) -Although, this was by my using an iMac that
is also running Windows XP-SP3. The Flex-5000a ran just fine.
Here are a few words from my FIRST entry on this matter:
- Using a Firewire 400->800 (low cost!) cable, I booted an
iMac in BOOT CAMP, running XP-SP3 and PowerSDR 2.0.22:
Flex-5000a runs OK!!!
(So, THE RADIO IS OK!)
- I hooked up an external firewire hard drive to the HP Pavilion: -Works
OK!!
(So, the Firewire ports are OK on the HP Pavilion computer)
(I have a bad (Flex-related) driver, all of a sudden!)
Mike K0JTA
On 6/23/11 12:00 PM [Jun 23], [email protected] wrote:
I know that this is not an ideal solution, but are you able to have a native
windows computer that you can test with? At least to the point to see if
the radio responds?
Mike va3mw
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