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Subject: [WriteLog] Windows XP Home Questions
From: gbaron@charter.net (Gil Baron)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:21:45 -0600
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Stan Staten
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Windows XP Home Questions
>
>
> 1) I just replaced my Motherboard and when I put my SIIG dual serial back
> in, it came out something like Com 8 & 9.  The board was on Com 3
> & 4 before
> the MB swap.  Apparently the registry was holding Com 3 & 4 open.  Don't
> know if it was because I put the card in a different PCI slot or
> what.  All
> I did was to go to the system and change it back to Com 3 & 4 and rebooted
> to see what would happen.  It complained, but it moved it successfully and

Would you mind telling us how you did that. Did you edit the registry or is
there a setting in the control panel. I certainly could find not in the
control panel. If you edited the registry, what was the key that you edited?


Thanks.


> was there when I rebooted.  If you have a modem on Com 3 you might have to
> move it first or remove it until you get Com 3 & 4 settled down and then
> reinstall it.  I had to do that a while back on my old computer running
> Win98SE.  I am now using XPpro on a 1500 Athlon I built last winter.
>
> 2) W.R.T the cw keying, look through the archives. I did what others are
> doing and it worked fine on LPT1.
>
> 73 Stan, N3HS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Irwin C Darack
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com; frc@gofrc.org
> Subject: [WriteLog] Windows XP Home Questions
>
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Byte Runner Serial Card - I purchased a new PC running Windows XP
> Home and moved my byterunner PCI-200L com card to the new PC. Using
> the drivers I found on the Byterunner web site, the card was installed
> as Com's 4 and 5. Since writelog does not recognize anything beyond
> Com 4, I need to rename the port 5 to port 3. I could not find any
> instruction on Byterunners web site.
>
> 2) Does anyone have a drive that will allow Writelog to address the
> parallel port for CW keying under Windows XP? I have a CW LPT
> interface cable from K1NU that I used with my older windows 98SE pc.
> Will this cable work with Windows XP?
>
> Thanks, Irwin KD3TB
>
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