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

[Mike]

Win 7 may find the drivers on it's own. I'd try that first. Elecraft changed the KUSB 
they sell from a Prolific to a FTDI chipset circa July 2010. Both drivers are on the 
site, so if you download them, it's important to know which cable you have.

http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm#kusb

73, Mike NF4L

On 2/4/2011 6:49 AM, John K3TN wrote:
> 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