[RTTY] 4-port serial card for Windows 8.1 results

Fri Apr 25 11:16:27 EDT 2014

I have been looking at this thread and I know I had purchased a Serial
Adapter

cable that went from USB 2.0 to two male serial connections.

It was recommended to me that it does work well,

I cannot confirm because I have not tried it yet. I have not had a need to
use it,

plus my mother board does have a serial header. I purchased for possible
future needs.

It is a Micro Connections product. Purchased on Amazon 

On the package it says the CD includes drivers for Win7 - Win 8 - Vista - XP
and Mac

Here is a link:

Adapter Cable
<http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Connectors-Serial-Adapter-E07-162/dp/B0032325LE
/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1398438412&sr=8-10&keywords=usb+to+serial+port+adap
tor> 

I just thought it was easier than installing a board. Just another thought
or possibility.

Tom - WA2PNI 

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Greig
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 10:33 AM
To: Joe Subich, W4TV
Cc: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] 4-port serial card for Windows 8.1 results

Joe,

Thank you very much for this information. I did not realize 8.1 had this
capability.

Thank You!

Dave Greig N3BUO

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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <
<mailto:lists at subich.com> lists at subich.com> wrote:

> 

> Part of the problem with installing drivers in Windows 8/8.1 is the 

> new hybrid sleep (fast boot) capability.  In essence, Win 8/8.1 closes 

> any running applications then saves the operating system and hardware 

> drivers image to disk just like hibernate.  When rebooting that old 

> image is reloaded complete with all the drivers that were previously 

> installed - even if the hardware changed.  If the previous image had 

> drivers for hardware that was no longer present or drivers that were 

> to be replaced, that conflict can cause page faults and other (BSOD) 

> errors.

> 

> When installing new hardware the best thing one can do is to hold the 

> shift key while shutting down Windows 8/8.1 before making any hardware 

> change, install any new drivers, then restart Windows 8/8.1 before 

> trying to run anything new.  Shift-shutdown and restart both force a 

> complete (fresh) reload of the operating system and all drivers.

> 

> Another little known tip ... when installing new USB devices, always 

> disconnect any previously connected devices and restart before 

> connecting a new USB device for the first time.  This allows drivers 

> for the new device to be installed with a "clean slate" and prevents 

> older drivers and drivers from hardware no longer present from 

> interfering with the installation of a new device.

> 

> 73,

> 

>    ... Joe, W4TV

> 

> 

> On 4/24/2014 11:36 PM, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:

> 

>> Thanks to everyone who sent information on the serial cards they were 

>> using in their Windows 8 computers. I purchased a new Dell

>> 3847 desktop PC with Windows 8.1 and it arrived this past Monday.

>> 

>> On the serial card, I decided to go with a suggestion from Joe, W4TV, 

>> on the Syba model SD-PEX15011 for three reasons. One is that Joe is 

>> usually good about suggesting hardware (I purchased two USB sound 

>> cards he recommended and they work great), secondly because this 

>> particular 4-port board is the sister of the 4-port board I have been 

>> using in my XP Pro machine for many years, and thirdly because of the 

>> price. It is cheaper than any of the others. Although the 

>> manufacturer is listed as Syba, it says "Best Connectivity"

>> on the box.

>> 

>> I purchased the SD-PEX15011 from Newegg on Monday and it arrived today.

>> 

>>  <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124075>
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124075

>> 

>> I installed the board this evening using the instructions that came 

>> with the board. I'm sorry to report that nothing worked as it was 

>> suppose to but in the end, for reasons I can't explain, all four 

>> ports magically started working.

>> 

>> The instructions said to install the board, turn on the computer and 

>> Windows would recognize it - it did not. Windows did not like the 

>> board being installed and kept giving an error that it had to shut 

>> down and restart because "page fault in non-paged area".

>> 

>> I decided to remove the board and install the driver on the disk that 

>> came with the board, then re-install the board. There were Windows 8 

>> drivers on the disk. Windows still did not like the board being 

>> installed. On occasion it would give me the "page fault"

>> error and restart, but I did notice that COM 1 was showing up and the 

>> other ports were also showing in Device Manager but Windows didn't 

>> know what they were. I tried re-installing the driver but it wasn't 

>> working. I went online to find updated drivers. The drivers on the 

>> Syba website were actually older than the ones on the disk and I 

>> didn't see any for Windows 8. I did find a set of instructions for 

>> Windows 7 that suggested to "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement". I 

>> finally found instructions on how to do this in Windows 8.1 because 

>> the instructions for "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" on 

>> Windows 8 are totally different. I am finding out that Windows 8.1 is 

>> different than Window 8 in many ways.

>> 

>> Rebooting after "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" helped keep 

>> the PC from wanting to restart. I re-installed the drivers as 

>> Administrator but the ports did not show up in Device Manager. So I 

>> switched over to my non-Administrator account for no good reason 

>> other than to check the Device Manager; lo and behold, all four ports 

>> showed up in Device Manager.

>> 

>> I went ahead and tested all four ports and they all work for radio 

>> control and FSK/PTT. I restarted the computer several times and have 

>> not gotten the "page fault in non-paged area" error and everything 

>> seems very stable.

>> 

>> I don't know if I would recommend this board to anyone other than to 

>> someone who has time to play with it to get it to work. I think it's 

>> going to be OK, but if you want to spend a little more money, maybe 

>> something like a StarTech would install better. I don't know.

>> 

>> I will give it the smoke test in SPDX RTTY this weekend. I'm just not 

>> a fan of USB-to-serial adapters for FSK. Especially with the BARTG 75 

>> coming up on Sunday. Definitely need a legacy COM port for 75 baud on 

>> a homebrew transistor FSK interface!

>> 

>> 73, Don AA5AU

>> 

>> 

>> 

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