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My computer has no serial connectors!

quispqixquispqix Posts: 64
edited 2006-09-27 14:45 in General Discussion
O.K. My computer has USB, A few of them but my Parallax projects are all serial. And so I took a switch box and I put two DB-9 males on the Outputs. And the Input a female DB-9 I put inside the box, and the USB adapter is hanging out the backside. (I have to figure to put this on the inside of the box so I don't break it off) Here are three pictures I hope this is a helper to those without serial ports.

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  • dandreaedandreae Posts: 1,375
    edited 2006-09-26 17:47
    Did you download the drivers that are required?· Here is a link for the drivers:· http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/software/ftdi_drivers.asp


    Dave

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    Dave Andreae

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  • quispqixquispqix Posts: 64
    edited 2006-09-26 19:40
    My computer found the drivers. FTDI 5/19/2006 VER 2.0.0.0. The drivers in your link are VER:1.02.07.
    I am wondering if the FTDI drivers are in the service updates from Microsoft? I am running Windows XP Professional Ver: 2002 with Service Pack 2.
    The USB COM port for both the BASIC Stamp and Propeller are COM4 and both programs can be opened using the same port but the programs respectively do not recognize the wrong configuration.
    However I did encounter one difficulty, I had to re-boot my computer (after 24 hours) for recognition of the propeller. Is this something you might imply by the drivers? I want to know 'cause If Im running V2.0.0.0 I don't want to downgrade to V1.02.07.
    Thank-You

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  • dandreaedandreae Posts: 1,375
    edited 2006-09-26 23:49
    I believe it is a bug Windows XP regarding the reboot.· I've noticed that some PCs require you to find the drivers twice before recognizing the USB device.

    Dave

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    Dave Andreae

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  • Robert@HCCRobert@HCC Posts: 80
    edited 2006-09-27 02:00
    Yes, I can confirm the above - It always takes me two tries before the device is recognized., at least on the four machines I installed on...one Win2k, and three WinXP machines.

    Alohas
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2006-09-27 14:45
    Hey everyone, just to elaborate, the reason the installation of the USB Drivers happens twice is that it is a two part install.· The first part installs the USB Controller Driver, while the second part installs the VCP Driver, which assigns a COM Port.· Take care.

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