[Elecraft] K3: Windows 7 and USB/serial redux

[John K3TN]

I built a new Windows 7 64 bit Pro PC, got all my ham software up and running
and for a brief period of time life was good. A bad RAM module brought that
to a crashing (literally) end. Trying to recover from that I've been having
a series of problems that keep pointing to what looks like the well known
USB/serial port driver kind of problem.

So, it looks like I'm going to do a complete clean re-install of Windows and
start again. When I bought the K3 in Jan 2010 I bought the generic
USB/serial interface from Elecraft. I had loaded the drivers pointed to from
the Elecraft site - is that the safe thing to use? Somewhere else I saw some
pointing to other drivers. 

I'm not going to even try to install any of these drivers until I'm 100%
sure the Windows 7 setup is 100% stable, but at some point I'm going to want
to update the K3 firmware...

73 John K3TN
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