Fw: [ct-user] DVP not working on playback

[Bob Naumann - N5NJ]

> It sounds like you need to set up the ramdrive to hold the DVP
created
> files on the "B" computer.
>
> This is exactly what happens when you forget to do that.
>
> Robert E. Naumann
> N5NJ / V26O
> N5NJ@arrl.net
> www.qsl.net/n5nj
> Plano, TX  USA
> ex KR2J, V26RN, W6V, WA2OVE
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Shohet" <kq2m@mags.net>
> To: <ctuser@contesting.com>; <ct-user@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 21:10
> Subject: [ct-user] DVP not working on playback
>
>
> >
> > Can anyone help me fix this DVP problem?  This is a new DVP, just
> installed
> > Sunday 10/1/00.  I was using it with a 486 computer with Digiboard
> and CT
> > Ver 9.27 (an old version that works with digiboard).
> >
> > The digiboard works fine to control my FT1000MP and networks
> properly with
> > the other FT1000MP and a 386 computer also running CT Ver 9.27.
> >
> > Originally installed (in Sunday) in Computer A (486 digiboard
> computer) it
> > worked fine on record and playback.  Then it was installed in
> Computer B.
> > This is a description of the problem originally ONLY found in
> Computer B -
> > the 386:
> >
> > Regarding the DVP....  The DVP in computer B would not playback.
It
> would
> > record fine and the little line in the red box would continually
> rotate on
> > record but
> > when playback was pressed the DVP would go "beep" and the line in
> the little
> > blue box would rotate only one "mark" and nothing would playback.
> Pressing
> > F1 again would cause it to  - maybe -  rotate one mark, with a
> "beep" but
> > with no audio,
> > and the radio was not being keyed.
> >
> >  When I reinstalled it in Computer A (the digi computer with the
> funky
> > video -) the same thing happened.  The DVP worked FINE in it
> yesterday but
> > NOT today.
> >
> > Now I have the same problem in  BOTH computers, the DVP appears to
> recorde
> > but does not playback.  On record, the line in the Red box rotates
> properly
> > but on playback, the line in the Blue box rotates maybe one
"click"
> and
> > beeps but no audio comes out.
> >
> > In addition, occasionally, when I press Shift F1 to record, I get
a
> screen
> > full of gibberish that would keep
> > scrolling gibberish until I rebooted.
> >
> >  I tried to record individual letters and prefixes also.  The DVP
> would
> > "count up" and display some numeric stuff.  That seemed to work,
but
> again,
> > playback was a "beep", rotating one "click" in the (left) blue
box,
> and then
> > nothing.
> >
> >  What is going on here?  Can anyone help me fix this?  I have a
> feeling that
> > it is something simple but I have no idea what will make it work.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Bob KQ2M
> >
> >
> >
> >
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