When I installed the Byterunner card in a new Windows XP system it did warn
me that the driver was not approved or certified or something like that, but
I went ahead anyway and it works just fine. I asked the guy at Byterunner
about this and he said that it is very costly for them to get certified and
so had not as yet been willing to spend the money. Sounds like they have to
have it certified by an independent testing lab. It would be more
satisfying if they had done so but that was his explanation.
Maybe SIIG has spent the cash to do this? Anyone installed one of them on
XP would know as they wouldn't get a warning message if it had been
certified.
Ron N5IN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Turner" <w7ti@dslextreme.com>
To: <w2up@mindspring.com>
Cc: <writelog@contesting.com>; "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] [RTTY] Multi-port serial boards
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:45:31 -0000, Barry wrote:
>
> >My second station computer died, so I'm planning to replace it. As all
> >the new systems now are PCI only, I'm looking for recommendations for
> >a 4 COM port PCI card that shares 1 IRQ.
>
> _________________________________________________________
>
> I can't answer about sharing one IRQ, but if you're running WinXP or
> might run it in the future, be sure to get an XP compatible card. Not
> all of them are, as I found out the hard way. :-)
>
> Now that I have XP running ok I love it, but there are a multitude of
> incompatibilities with older hardware and software. The Microsoft web
> site has an interactive compatibility checker which is pretty accurate,
> but not 100%.
>
> Bill, W7TI
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