[Elecraft] K3 not Seen By Computer after OS upgrade

[Dick Dievendorff]

It took a couple of minutes for the device driver to be installed the first time. There were a series of “toaster popups” in the lower right corner that described progress…  I think I did have the other end of the cable into the radio for this, but I don’t recall.  Patience is definitely required.  I most recently did this at last year’s Visalia DX convention with a new device (a K-Pod) with slow wifi and my CEO and customers were waiting. I remember it well.

 

I sometimes delete the existing driver, then ask Windows to go get it again.

 

Dick, K6KR

 

 

From: Richard Lawn [mailto:rjlawn at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 11:40
To: Dick Dievendorff <dick at elecraft.com>; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 not Seen By Computer after OS upgrade

 

But there is no characteristic windows system chime when I plug in the K3 cable nor is anything shown in the device manager, except the other parts in use.

 

Rick

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:23 PM Dick Dievendorff <dick at elecraft.com <mailto:dick at elecraft.com> > wrote:

What I did the first time on several different Windows 10 systems was plug
in the USB cable and waited (for several minutes) for Windows to find the
required device driver from Windows Update.  I've never had to install a
device driver from The FTDI site.

YMMV...
Dick, K6KR


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From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> ] On Behalf Of
Richard Lawn
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:56
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 not Seen By Computer after OS upgrade

I bit the bullet and upgrade from Win 7 to 10 this morning in an effort to
address some issues I just couldn't live with any longer. All was fine until
I plugged the USB cable from my K3 into the computer and nothing. No
recognition what so ever. I went to the Elecraft site and downloaded and
installed FTDI and Prolific drivers though I think it needed FTDI. Still
nothing. I'm puzzeled though as I downloaded two different FTDI driver
packages. One was an install package and the other is a folder with no
obvious setup file for installation. The folder is labeled CDM v2.12.26 WHQL
Certified. That's probably the one I needed to install but am at a loss in
how to do that. Some advice would be appreciated.

Rick, W2JAZ
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