[Dxbase] DXBase and Byterunner PCI-800H

Wed Dec 7 13:07:37 EST 2005

While I don't use the 8 port board, I do use a 4 port card 
(PCI-400HS-9) plus a 4 port (PCI-410-HSP-9 giving me an extra parallel 
port) bringing my com port total to 10 ports (2 built in ports on the 
motherboard). I use the VSCom drivers rather than the optional Oxford 
drivers. The VSCom drivers set up nicer giving me COM1 thru COM10, 
where the Oxford leave out COM3 and COM4 leaving a gap, i.e. COM1-COM2, 
COM5-COM12. I don't really need that many com ports, so I pulled one 
with the extra parallel port, leaving me with 'just' 6 com ports in my 
ham machine at the moment.
There are no IRQ issues at all since these are PCI cards which 
automatically deal with that problem. Thank goodness we are finished 
with ISA cards which gobble up all available IRQ's!
Ron, N5IN
Al Bailey wrote:
> Yesterday I presented a query regarding the Byterunner and it has been 
> resolved. It turns out I also had a 2 port Lava card installed but 
> opted to remove it. Once I did, XP did not see the Byterunner properly 
> and I had to uninstall the drivers and do a reinstall and all is now FB.
>> I currently have the two serial ports on the system board and 7 ports 
> on the Byterunner working with no conflicts. For anybody interested in 
> the Byterunner it is now manufactured by VSCom.
>> Sure is nice to be able to control both rigs, both rotors, control the 
> W5XD keyer, etc.
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