[Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread Nick Pugh
My flex running on xp and get the blue screen of death causing a reboot. Dudley think it some hardware problem in my computer. The computer does fine until I turn on the Flex 5k. The question is how to trouble shoot the problem? Thanks in advance nick

Re: [Flexradio] Flex 5000 VU module

2012-08-15 Thread Mike Valentine
Bill, Maybe you missed this from yesterday: Yes, a 4 dB pad in line with the antenna would be bad for receive. I'm no good at making ascii diagrams and didn't have time to make a real circuit drawing, so my word picture wasn't clear enough. I suggested the extra coax be placed between the

Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread Jim Jannuzzo
Nick,If it 'only' happens when you start the Flex, that points to the Firewire card. Is this a new condition, or was the Flex running OK on this computer before? If the Flex and computer were running fine before, and this just started: Did you just make a change, like disconnecting all the

Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Clafton
Hi Nick, It suggests a Firewire Driver or Firewire H/W issue. The best way to diagnose would be to process the blue screen dump file. Take a look at this. Feel free to contact me off list and I will help you. http://elliottback.com/wp/how-to-analyze-windows-xp-bsod-minidump-files/ Regards

Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread amsctalx
A very useful (and simple) tool for viewing the contents of a dump file, e specially without having the debug symbol library installed, is Nirsoft's BlueScreenView: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html Note that reading the results, even in plain English, doesn't always point

Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread Rich - W3ZJ
It can also be a bad Firewire cable. You may think that's unlikely but I had one and haven't had a single problem since replacing it a couple of months ago. It failed suddenly after a month or more of successful use. Doubting that could have been the problem, I replaced everything else first,

Re: [Flexradio] help with flex 5000

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Clafton
Indeedif that initial communication process fails and the driver developer has not catered for such an instance...BANG! Good catch! -- Richard A Clafton | the brITish guy | W5\G7EIX RIROC - Hosting - Development - Technology http://www.riroc.com | rclaf...@riroc.com Jack of all trades,

[Flexradio] Power-sdr 3.4 ?

2012-08-15 Thread Stig LA4WAA
Ahead of Dayton there was a leak from one of the Flex-guys here about a coming version of the Power-SDR version 3.4. Or what is going on? 73's LB5VA, Stig (ex. la4waa) ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz

Re: [Flexradio] Power-sdr 3.4 ?

2012-08-15 Thread Dan Parsons
That leak was a mistake. The guy who said 3.4 actually meant to type 2.4. And 2.4 is still in beta and being worked on. Dan On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Stig LA4WAA la4...@online.no wrote: Ahead of Dayton there was a leak from one of the Flex-guys here about a coming version of the

Re: [Flexradio] Power-sdr 3.4 ?

2012-08-15 Thread Stig LA4WAA
Yes, I meant 2.4 . sorry for the 3.4 . J Stig Fra: Dan Parsons [mailto:dpars...@nyip.net] Sendt: 15. august 2012 21:00 Til: Stig LA4WAA Kopi: flexradio@flex-radio.biz Emne: Re: [Flexradio] Power-sdr 3.4 ? That leak was a mistake. The guy who said 3.4 actually meant to type 2.4. And