Interesting. My computer is relatively fast, and I use a hardware serial port
for my OII and have had no problems flashing it or with anything else. I have
none of my old machines because they all suffered from bad capacitors on the MB
or dead old-style PS and I considered them not worth repair.
If TT's flash program is somehow hardwired to use a processor no faster than X,
myriad problems will soon arise.
Kim N5OP
"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> On Jan 5, 2015, at 2:24, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not a USB port that I was using - it's a real serial port. I consider
> the case closed and glad I held on to my old computer ;-)
>
> Barry N1EU
>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> If you broke out your old XP box, it was certainly a a different port! Had
>> you already tried a different USB-RS232 interface? That would have been
>> something similar, I suppose.
>>
>> Kim N5OP
>>
>> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as
>> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 13:57, Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> To try a different computer/port.
>>>
>>> Barry N1EU
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious: what was his suggestion? I missed it.
>>>>
>>>> Kim N5OP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/4/2015 1:19 PM, Barry N1EU wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks to Rick VE7TK's suggestion, I dug up my ancient WinXP computer
>> and
>>>>> cabled it up and it flashed the radio fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> 73, Barry N1EU
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>>>> SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>>>>
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>>>> practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it
>>>> doesn’t matter who said it./
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