Patrick,
There is one other thing that you can try that we have found to work on
i7 PCs, but I would not try it until you know if the new cable is going
to help.
There is a PCIe bus timing problem we have discovered with some i7 PCs.
We have found that plugging the PCIe 1x Firewire card into an empty 8x
or 16x slot, can resolve connectivity and intermittent problems. We are
not sure what causes this. It may be overclocking that the BIOS does by
default or something else.
The Firewire connectors and how they fit are beyond ourcontrol. They
are to specification as per the IEEE. Becausethey are recessed
connectors, I do not think there is a connectivity issue at play here.
Tim Ellison
On 5/6/2013 2:56 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
Tim, Yes it is an i7 AND I have gone through the recommended sleep
deprivation therapy advised by the home team at flex. I also just
moments ago plugged in the new firewire cable Dudley had mailed out to
me and transferred the snap-open/closed ferrites to the new one at the
computer end as instructed.
Radio is working so all I can do now is observe the MTBF with the new
cable. As instructed by Dudley I have installed the "legacy" driver.
I think that until or unless there is further malfunction we are in a
wait and see monitoring mode.
If there is anything else regarding i7 besides the sleep issue please
tell me what to do.
Thanks for jumping in, you guys are as good as it gets in customer
service without being a close blood relative.
Not a failing of Flex but I am less than happy with the wishy washy
seating of the firewire connector at the radio and the computer end. I
wish it had a thumbscrew or wire bail or something to secure it better
to the computer and the radio. It needs a more positive retention
system. Maybe I should get some of those peel-off adhesive pads that
accept snap ties and put one on either side of the IEEE 1394 sockets
and use a plastic wire tie or little bread wrapper twisty to hold the
connector a bit more positively. Perhaps I obsess too much. Of late I
have had a couple folks compare me to a character on the TV series
"The Big Bang Theory." The shoe may not be exactly my size but it
isn't that bad of a fit.
73,
Patrick AF5CK
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Ellison
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 7:03 AM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?
Is your PC an i7?
Tim Ellison
On 5/5/2013 2:16 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
In the manner of our late great prez RMN, "Let me make one thing
perfectly clear!" This post is NOT a vote of no confidence for Dudley
who is a Flex Wizard. I'm just querying the brain trust just in case
someone may have useful input. This august group has a lot of grey
matter in fine working order and may think of something overlooked.
I have an F5K which has been working really swell for months with no
problems encountered loading new S/W releases. I'm not doing
anything fancy, just SSB using only one of the RCVRs. I upgraded to
the latest S/W and then... Everything works fine again except PSDR
crashes at random but frequent intervals. Sometimes throwing an error
window about an external device raising an exception and sometimes
not. Sometimes cycling the on/off on-screen switch restores
operation till another crash and sometimes that just causes the
exception error to display. Rebooting the computer and or just
restarting PSDR seems to have the same result making no difference.
By telephone Dudley professionally guided me through installing the
"legacy" 1394 driver and confirmed that I have a good TI chipset. It
is capable of bidirectional streaming at the 800 data rate whereas
the F5K is now streaming both ways full time at 400 data rate vice
the previous S/W release using interrupt driven service for the 1394
data. Dudley told me this new demand on the firewire interface is
even more demanding of a "good" cable and the driver. So, Dudley is
having a new cable mailed to me to arrive real soon now.
Yesterday the MTBF for crashing was on the order of a couple hours
whereas before Dudley's intervention it was on the order of a couple
minutes. This afternoon things took a turn for the worse. Invoking
PSDR and clicking on [Start] in Panafall display mode gives a uniform
Pink waterfall that moves down ward at the normal rate filling the
entire space with a nice restful pink. There is no audio.
Repetitively clicking the [Start/Stop] on-screen button doesn't
elicit different behavior.
Suggestions?
Patrick AF5CK
-----Original Message----- From: Les Keppie
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 5:32 PM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?
Ctl and Shift together then I
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:27:25 +1100, Steven Hess <flameb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
What is the keystroke combo to get the temperature pop-up displayed in
PSDR? My mind has gone blank.
Steven
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