[Orion] Orion upgrade - bought a laptop, same result.

[mmclendon@directway.com]

Richard,

I have not had any luck using the KeySpan 4 port USB to Serial converter 
to flash my Orion.  However, when I use the shack computer's built-in 
serial port, I have only an occasional problem with failed downloads. I 
know the Keyspan drivers are a little buggy, but there is some problems 
with the flash loader as well (note the option for ignoring errors!).

If I find out what config to put the host PC in using WinXP, I'll share 
it. There might be some software timing element w/ the loader that 
causes  the dependency on hardware serial ports and perhaps CPU speed, 
load and physical RAM available to the process.

Hmmmm....

Need some time to experiment. Have you tried some older flash versions 
to see if there is a version dependency?

Mike,  KE4U

 

Richard Hemingway wrote:

>I gave up on the Virtual PC for transferring with the Flash program 
>to the Orion.  I bought an Toshiba laptop with  Windows XP home. 
>Communicated with the Orion with Keyspan and SignaLink SL-1+
>
>I had to run the flash transfer program with "stop on error" 
>unchecked.  It really zipped through the first 7270 lines in about 
>3-4 minutes and then slowed down and took two hours to do the rest . 
>When done the Orion didn't work, the screen was blank.
>
>Ideas???   I have also e-mailed Paul Clinton at TT and will call him 
>tomorrow or the next day.
>
>
>This is getting irritating to say the least!  And no expensive ( 
>although eventually I will run some Windows ham programs on the 
>laptop and not the Mac)
>
>Dick, N5XRD
>
>Some ham weekend th is has been<gr>!!
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