[Dx4win] problem

[WA7AA]

I have a similar problem to yours and here are the limited results of my 
troubleshooting, for what it's worth:

A few years ago, out of the blue and after years of using the same 
station setup, I began having radio time-outs while using DX4Win. I 
eventually traced the problem and was able to consistently reproduce it 
by playing any video heavy content in my web browser (Firefox). Browsing 
normal page content that does not require heavy use of the video card 
does not cause time-outs. I can't pinpoint the date when this started 
happening, so I have no idea whether it was caused by video card driver 
updates, automatic Windows resources change, DX4Win version change or 
whatever else.
However, a similar thing occurs while using N1MM+ with a slight but 
important difference: in this case, I get error messages on the N1MM+ 
status bar saying "Radio sent invalid CAT data", but there is no radio 
comms loss, i.e. it still reads frequencies and talks to my radio.
I don't know if this applies to your scenario. I simply got used to 
living with this and I make sure I don't watch video content while 
leaving DX4Win in the Real Time Entry mode. I suspect something 
somewhere in the Windows video settings interferes with the COM port 
setup, but I can't be bothered to go deep diving in there.
I attempted to change DX4Win radio polling to make it the same as N1MM+ 
without success.

I hope this helps before you go crazy reinstalling all kinds of software.

73,

Zoran WA7AA


> thanks Larry, yes, that is the way I always start up in the 
> morning.... computer on first... loads up and running, then I turn on 
> the radio and out board items, then open either DX4WIN or Writelog 
> .... shut down the opposite nite time. When I get a time out event, if 
> I close DX4WIN and re-open all works for a while but eventually it 
> times out. Wierd part is Writelog, microHam router, radio/amp and 
> computer no problem. Thinking about doing a re-install of DX4WIN 9.0.9 
> but I always get extremely nervous when messing around with 
> software.... usually a cussing fit going to happen somewhere .... then 
> the wifie tells me I should have known better! .... hopefully this 
> thing will self correct but who am I kidding? lol, 73's Cort K4WI
>
>> LARRY MALLEK <mailto:lmallek at roadrunner.com>
>> Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:40 AM
>>
>>
>> *CORT: MY SYSTEM DOES THE SAME THING IF I DO NOT HAVE THE RADIO ON 
>> BEFORE TURNING DX4WIN ON. IF THE RADIO IS ON THEN I DO NOT HAVE THE 
>> PROBLEM. HOPE THIS HELPS YOU AS IT WAS A WHILE BEFORE I FOUND THE 
>> SAME THING HERE.  BEST TO YOU AND YOUR AND STAY SAFE. DE LARRY - K6YUI *
>>
>> On 12-Nov-20 7:48 AM, Courtney Judd wrote:
>> -- 
>> Larry A. Mallek, K6YUI
>> lmallek at roadrunner.com <mailto:lmallek at roadrunner.com>
>> 1st K6/W6 TO MAKE HONOR ROLL ON RTTY. (2012)
>> Skype name larry-k6yui
>> President So Calif DX Club 2010
>>
>> U.S.A.F. 1960-1966
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