[WriteLog] PC Shuts Down w/ Serial Cable Connected

Wed Mar 23 07:17:54 EST 2005

This sounds very much like you have a UPS configured for COM1. Go to
Control Panel, Power Options, and click on the UPS tab. Select a
Manufacture as "none" and that should solve it.
Bob Gates wrote:
> HELP! While I have had an Extra Class ticket, but I feel like a novice. Have 
> been QRT for 25 years and am just getting back into the hobby. I realized how 
> far behind the times I was when I was asked to help out at a VE session 
> recently. I was looking over the Extra Class exam, and my first reaction was 
> Holy Crap! Over half the questions related to technologies that didn't even 
> exist when I was last on the air. I still need to read up on how an "earth 
> station" doesn't have to be on the earth.
>> Anyway, I bought a Yaesu FT1000MP MARK-V to get back on the air and just 
> downloaded Writelog to, hopefully, use in the WPX test coming up. I have a Dell 
> Pentium desktop running Win XP Home with SP2. Tons of memory. Video card is a 
> Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum. I read up on the interface 
> requirements, and it appears that a standard 9 pin serial cable is all that is 
> needed to connect the rig's CAT serial port to the PC's COM port. So I went out 
> and bought one and installed it. I went into Writelog to configure the port. 
> After checking COM1, selecting the rig and setting the baud rate, I clicked 
> okay. Got an error message saying that COM1 was not available. A couple of 
> minutes later the PC crashed. Not crashed, actually it initiated a shut down, 
> saving settings etc, and turning off. I turned the power back on, got the desk 
> top back up, but within a couple of minutes, the shutdown process began again. 
> Went through this process several times. Disconnected the cable at the PC and 
> started up with no problems. Checked the BIOS settings for the COM port and it 
> was on AUTO. Changed it to COM1 (only other option was COM3). Went into 
> Printers/Faxes and set all the port settings per the Yaesu manual: 4800,N,8,2. 
> Did all of this in every possible combination with the serial cable connected 
> and not. Changed the BIOS back to AUTO when it didn't seem to make a 
> difference. Nine hours later I'm in the same boat. Whenever the serial cable 
> is connected to the PC, it will shutdown after a couple of minutes.
>> I know the COM port works because I used to have an older model APC UPS 
> controller hooked to it. Currently have a newer version that connects to a USB 
> port.
>> I'm at my wit's end, and I'm just getting started! I haven't even gotten to the 
> audio/keyer settings yet. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>> 73, Bob W7BJ 
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Bruce Ferry, AK8B
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