[PCR-1000] windows locks up....

[Bill VanAlstyne]

Tom,

My first off-the-top guess is that your mouse and the PCR-1000 are 
conflicting over use of a serial com port.  (That of course assumes you are 
using a serial mouse.) You will get an IRQ (interrupt) contention, for 
example, when you have devices connected to COM1: and COM3: and they both 
try to interrupt the CPU at the same time. (This would happen when you 
click the VFO knob, for example.) Could be any number of other things, too, 
but check that first. If you are using COM3: for the PCR-1000, make sure 
your serial mouse is on COM2:, not COM1: -- or use a PS2 or USB mouse instead.

Bill VanAlstyne, W6WV
Aptos, CA

At 01:04 PM 1/3/02 -0500, Dr Tom wrote:
>Greetings Group......
>
>I am sure this has went by before, but.......   Would someone please comment
>on why my PC locks up when I try to tune with the 'VFO Knob' ?   I can enter
>a freq from the keyboard, numerically, and the radio switches ok.  Also
>several other commands I try to do from the mouse lock it up to.
>Running pIII, 256mg ram, talk pcr, win 98.........in a Sony pcv-r545-ds
>
>Dr Tom Richert
>Temporary Acting Interim Director
>Department of Redundancy Department
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