Re: Need help with my CP290

[Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:58:15 -0500, Robert Green wrote:

> "Charles Sullivan" <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > My computers have always recognized the unit and I never remember having
> to
>> > install any drivers.  But over the weekend my PC crashed and I had to
>> > restore it to like new out of the box.   When I tried to use the CP290 I
>> > can't get any communications between the serial port and the unit.  It
> used
>> > to work on Com 4.  When I look at the Hardware Profile it indicates a
> big
>> > yellow question mark.
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>> > Carl
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>> Most older PCs came equipped with only two COM ports.  If yours
>> has four you probably have an add-on serial card installed,
>> and supplied with the card when you bought it would have been a
>> floppy or CD with the drivers for it.
>
> Good call!  But I thought that the CP290 had serious timing issues outside
> of the DOS environment in which it was born?  Am I misremembering something?

The problem would be with the software, not the CP290 hardware,
and I don't believe Carl mentioned what software he is using.
There is other Windows software available for the CP290 beyond
what X-10 supplied.

The CP290 "Lighthouse" software quit working for me when I moved
from Win 3.1 to Win 98, but by then I had switched to a CM11A.
(I haven't tried it under Win XP - who knows!)

Regards,
Charles Sullivan