Understood. GL with the new cable.
Tim Ellison
On 5/6/2013 4:20 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
OOPS... Sorry Tim, et al... I forgot to mention that Dudley covered
that with me as well. If I have any crashes with the new cable I will
try other slots as Dudley and now you recommend. I am much more
interested in having it work OK than understanding why it doesn’t.
Like when being bit by a dog. I care more about making him stop biting
than understanding why he he bites. Once the biting is stopped THEN I
might be interested in why he was biting.
Patrick AF5CK
*From:* Tim Ellison <mailto:t.m.ellison...@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Monday, May 06, 2013 2:09 PM
*To:* Patrick Greenlee <mailto:patric...@windstream.net>
*Cc:* flexradio@flex-radio.biz <mailto:flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
*Subject:* Re: [Flexradio] Temp display short cut?
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
mailto: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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