Re: [Flexradio] SDR-3000 Issue

2012-11-22 Thread Rich - W3ZJ
I too had a problem with the original Firewire cable on my F3K. It worked fine for about the first month and then the Firewire connection became unreliable. It went quickly down hill and got to the point where I couldn't even start PSDR. The cable was the last ting I suspected because what can

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-3000 Issue

2012-11-22 Thread Russ Dearmore
RJ,  If you have one of the gold colored firewire cables I would recommend getting one of the Granite Digital cables from Flex, and throwing the old one to the moon.    The supplied cables sometimes last a few months and then they stop working.  Regardless it will help with future troublesho

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-3000 Issue

2012-11-22 Thread John Kramer
Check out your firewire cable. I had one that started to get flakey on me with my 3000. It would disconnect after running fine for 5 or 10 minutes. It was only when I borrowed my firewire cable from my 5000 installation that I realised that the cable was the problem. 73 ZS5J On 22 Nov 2012, a

Re: [Flexradio] SDR-3000 Issue

2012-11-22 Thread Michael Walker
A few things, in no particular order - See if you can run the 3000 on another computer as this will help to eliminate if the problem is the computer or not - Make sure the firewire cable is firmly seated on both ends - Look at the windows event logs and see if you can get a clue of wh

[Flexradio] SDR-3000 Issue

2012-11-22 Thread W3HP - RJ Harris
Some months back I switched from an SDR-1000 to an SDR-3000. The rig has been working fine from day one. Lots of solid air time. Days ago it started to crash. The unit will start fine, then pause a few minutes into operation. Windows displays the red warning box stating that my application requeste