[WriteLog] PC Shuts Down w/ Serial Cable Connected

[Bruce Ferry]

This sounds very much like you have a UPS configured for COM1. Go to
Control Panel, Power Options, and click on the UPS tab. Select a
Manufacture as "none" and that should solve it.

Bob Gates wrote:
> HELP!  While I have had an Extra Class ticket, but I feel like a novice.  Have 
> been QRT for 25 years and am just getting back into the hobby.  I realized how 
> far behind the times I was when I was asked to help out at a VE session 
> recently.  I was looking over the Extra Class exam, and my first reaction was 
> Holy Crap!  Over half the questions related to technologies that didn't even 
> exist when I was last on the air.  I still need to read up on how an "earth 
> station" doesn't have to be on the earth.
> 
> Anyway, I bought a Yaesu FT1000MP MARK-V to get back on the air and just 
> downloaded Writelog to, hopefully, use in the WPX test coming up.  I have a Dell 
> Pentium desktop running Win XP Home with SP2.  Tons of memory.  Video card is a 
> Creative Soundblaster  Audigy 2 ZS Platinum.  I read up on the interface 
> requirements, and it appears that a standard 9 pin serial cable is all that is 
> needed to connect the rig's CAT serial port to the PC's COM port.  So I went out 
> and bought one and installed it.  I went into Writelog to configure the port. 
> After checking COM1, selecting the rig and setting the baud rate, I clicked 
> okay.  Got an error message saying that COM1 was not available.  A couple of 
> minutes later the PC crashed.  Not crashed, actually it initiated a shut down, 
> saving settings etc, and turning off.  I turned the power back  on, got the desk 
> top back up, but within a couple of minutes, the shutdown process began again. 
> Went through this process several times.  Disconnected the cable at the PC and 
> started up with no problems.  Checked the BIOS settings for the COM port and it 
> was on AUTO.  Changed it to COM1 (only other option was COM3).  Went into 
> Printers/Faxes and set all the port settings per the Yaesu manual:  4800,N,8,2. 
> Did all of this in every possible combination with the serial cable connected 
> and not.  Changed the BIOS back to AUTO when it didn't seem to make a 
> difference.  Nine hours later I'm in the same boat.  Whenever the serial cable 
> is connected to the PC, it will shutdown after a couple of minutes.
> 
> I know the COM port works because I used to have an older model APC UPS 
> controller hooked to it.  Currently have a newer version that connects to a USB 
> port.
> 
> I'm at my wit's end, and I'm just getting started!  I haven't even gotten to the 
> audio/keyer settings yet.  Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> 73, Bob W7BJ 
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