[Dx4win] Com Port Issue

[n4dsp]

Art,
I am no computer geek so not sure what you mean by virtual ports.
Cable is USB to USB.  Downloaded the driver from the Kenwood website
and installed.

Under Device Manager/Ports;
Silicon Labs cp210x USB to UART Bridge (com3)

That's all I can tell you Art.

john

On 12/17/2013 4:52 PM, Art - W6KY wrote:
> Are your ports virtual ports? USB to Serial conversion?
> When I had those, every time my cpu rebooted, my virtual serial ports
> would change...
>
> 73, Art    W6KY
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> *From:* n4dsp <n4dsp at triad.rr.com>
> *To:* Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
> *Cc:* dx4win <dx4win at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:59 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Dx4win] Com Port Issue
>
> Hello Jim,
> as per your instruction leaving it on COM 7,,,
> I do leave it on COM 7 but upon wakening
> in the morning it's on COM 3 in Ports of the Device
> Manager! So in dx4win I set File/Preferences/Radio/COM Port
> to COM 3 and four hours later in Device Manager it's back
> on COM 7!!
> Running Windows 7 Enterprise.
> Thanks for the other advice.
> Merry Christmas
>
> john
>
> On 12/17/2013 10:00 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, n4dsp <n4dsp at triad.rr.com 
> <mailto:n4dsp at triad.rr.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Downloaded and installed the USB driver for the Kenwood TS 590S and was
> >> assigned to COM 3.
> >> This morning I found the USB driver had been assigned to COM 7. 
> This has
> >> been occuring the last
> >> couple of days. How can I keep the driver assigned to one certain 
> port and
> >> determine what program
> >> is using COM3?
> > If you go into the Windows Device Manager, and click on the '+' sign
> > next to "Ports (COM & LPT)" you will see the port assignments.  You
> > may be able to right-click on one of your virtual ports (like COM7)
> > and assign it to a different number.  But if the radio works OK on
> > COM7, why not leave it that way?  Remember, you can only have ONE port
> > assigned to a given number.
> >
> > I don't have any advice to determine what application is trying to
> > access COM3 besides DX4WIN.  Go through all the DX4WIN preference
> > tabs, and make sure that all devices are using a unique COM port #.
> >
> > If you had created virtual COM ports because you are using a
> > USB-to-serial cable (or a RigBlaster, microHAM, etc. device), try
> > deleting all the virtual COM ports, then reboot, then create only the
> > ones you need.
> >
>
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