This sounds very much like you have a UPS configured for COM1. Go to
Control Panel, Power Options, and click on the UPS tab. Select a
Manufacture as "none" and that should solve it.
Bob Gates wrote:
> HELP! While I have had an Extra Class ticket, but I feel like a novice.
> Have
> been QRT for 25 years and am just getting back into the hobby. I realized
> how
> far behind the times I was when I was asked to help out at a VE session
> recently. I was looking over the Extra Class exam, and my first reaction was
> Holy Crap! Over half the questions related to technologies that didn't even
> exist when I was last on the air. I still need to read up on how an "earth
> station" doesn't have to be on the earth.
>
> Anyway, I bought a Yaesu FT1000MP MARK-V to get back on the air and just
> downloaded Writelog to, hopefully, use in the WPX test coming up. I have a
> Dell
> Pentium desktop running Win XP Home with SP2. Tons of memory. Video card is
> a
> Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum. I read up on the interface
> requirements, and it appears that a standard 9 pin serial cable is all that
> is
> needed to connect the rig's CAT serial port to the PC's COM port. So I went
> out
> and bought one and installed it. I went into Writelog to configure the port.
> After checking COM1, selecting the rig and setting the baud rate, I clicked
> okay. Got an error message saying that COM1 was not available. A couple of
> minutes later the PC crashed. Not crashed, actually it initiated a shut
> down,
> saving settings etc, and turning off. I turned the power back on, got the
> desk
> top back up, but within a couple of minutes, the shutdown process began
> again.
> Went through this process several times. Disconnected the cable at the PC
> and
> started up with no problems. Checked the BIOS settings for the COM port and
> it
> was on AUTO. Changed it to COM1 (only other option was COM3). Went into
> Printers/Faxes and set all the port settings per the Yaesu manual:
> 4800,N,8,2.
> Did all of this in every possible combination with the serial cable connected
> and not. Changed the BIOS back to AUTO when it didn't seem to make a
> difference. Nine hours later I'm in the same boat. Whenever the serial
> cable
> is connected to the PC, it will shutdown after a couple of minutes.
>
> I know the COM port works because I used to have an older model APC UPS
> controller hooked to it. Currently have a newer version that connects to a
> USB
> port.
>
> I'm at my wit's end, and I'm just getting started! I haven't even gotten to
> the
> audio/keyer settings yet. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
> 73, Bob W7BJ
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