[Dx4win] HELP dx4win on new win10 computer

[Howard K2HK]

Good advice Rick. Will try it one step at a time. Comports work with other programs. I'll keep the group posted. Off to the salt mine.

On the road

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On Nov 3, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Rick Murphy <k1mu at arrl.net> wrote:

> Howard,
> Start with trying to solve one problem at a time.  Your Win10 system can't connect to the Internet and can't connect to your rig. Trying to solve these together makes it harder to diagnose the causes as they're not related.
> 
> Don't plug in the serial port device. Can DX4WIN now connect to the Internet? If not, try to solve that - perhaps your antivirus or firewall is preventing it.
> 
> Then, plug in the serial port device. Is DX4WIN still able to connect to the Internet? If no, what error are you seeing? If so, then you've solved the first problem.
> 
> Assuming that Internet connectivity is now working, what error do you see when you configure DX4WIN to use your FTDI serial port? 
> 
> Without knowing what is not working and what indication you have that it's not working, there's not much to do here but guess.
> 
> I second Robert's suggestion to use something other than DX4WIN to test the serial port. Device Manager doesn't tell you that the device is working, it only tells you that it's recognized. Counterfeit FTDI devices are widely available and often don't work very well, so you may just have a bad device. (For some of them, the FTDI device driver recognizes that it's a counterfeit and refuses to work.)
> 73,
>     -Rick
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Howard K2HK <howk2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Usually can work it out myself but this has me stymied. Copied dx4win8.05 from my win7  computer to win10 computer. New computer has no serial ports but I have FTDI interface that shows up in the device manager as working.  Dx4win starts up but can not connect to internet connections. I am using a Winkey as well which does not respond to the selected serial ports. Running out f ideas. Any help?Howard...K2Hk
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