HRD shuts down

[OE5CSP-Chris]

We habe been trying to use HRD with the K3 but the program shuts down after some seconds. I use Windows Vista. The K3 is connected to the program in the beginning(I can read the K3´s frequency), but then stops working(blue screen). We believe that the USB to serial cable is causing troubles, but on the other hand I can run the K3 utility without any problem with the same cable and drivers.

73, Chris-OE5CSP

[Keith-6]

 
Make sure you use a FTDI Serial Cable that has a real RS-232 Port built in
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm
When I bought this cable all my Serial port nightmares ended in Linux, BSD,
MAC OS X and Windows 32 OS systems.



In Windows Vista make sure that you set up the program to run in a windows
XP compatibility mode and also make sure that you have downloaded the latest
version of HRD. Contact the author of HRD if problems continue.

Good Luck and DX.
 

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We habe been trying to use HRD with the K3 but the program shuts down after
some seconds. I use Windows Vista. The K3 is connected to the program in the
beginning(I can read the K3´s frequency), but then stops working(blue
screen). We believe that the USB to serial cable is causing troubles, but on
the other hand I can run the K3 utility without any problem with the same
cable and drivers.

73, Chris-OE5CSP


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[OE5CSP-Chris]

 Make sure you use a FTDI Serial Cable that has a real RS-232 Port built in

> http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/USB-Serial.htm
> When I bought this cable all my Serial port nightmares ended in Linux,
> BSD,
> MAC OS X and Windows 32 OS systems.
>
>
>
> In Windows Vista make sure that you set up the program to run in a windows
> XP compatibility mode and also make sure that you have downloaded the
> latest
> version of HRD. Contact the author of HRD if problems continue.
>
> Good Luck and DX.
>  
>
> --
> Best Regards, Keith
> http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/ 

Hi Keith,

Thanks for your reply.My computer skills are not that good, so how can I set up the program in a windows XP compability mode?

73, Chris
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[OE5CSP-Chris]

We connected the K3 to another computer running XP and after a while everything was doing fine. I´ll contact Simon today and let you now the answer. Thanks for your replies!!!


73, Chris-OE5CSP

[OE5CSP-Chris]

Here is Simon´s answer to my problem. Does anybody know where to get prolific drivers which will work with Ham Radio Deluxe?
73, Chris-OE5CSP

Hi,

If you get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) then it's the driver for the
Prolific cable which must be updated, only drivers can cause a BSOD and with
VISTA there are new / special drivers.

73
Simon Brown, HB9DRV

[OE5CSP-Chris]

OE5CSP-Chris wrote

We habe been trying to use HRD with the K3 but the program shuts down after some seconds. I use Windows Vista. The K3 is connected to the program in the beginning(I can read the K3´s frequency), but then stops working(blue screen). We believe that the USB to serial cable is causing troubles, but on the other hand I can run the K3 utility without any problem with the same cable and drivers.

73, Chris-OE5CSP

I could not find drivers which would work with windows Vista and my USB/serial cable, but a ham, who had read about my problem here on the reflector gave me a call on the phone and said, that he knew what I need.(and I also got  some useful e-mails) Two days later a brand new USB/serial cable arrived. This friendly operator dind´t even want money for it-he said the magic word"hamspirit". Thanks Hermann!!! Now HRD is working!!

73, Chris-OE5CSP