You will have a few COM ports that are written to the registry that may not have been used in years yet still prevent the automatic driver assignment. You can use Jim Mitchell's cabletest utility that will read the list of COM ports and check for a cable. When it comes upon an empty port it advises "invalid port" and that port can be over written by a manual driver install. I've done it with many older programs that don't address COM ports over 8 and I have a cable that got COM 9. Since I know what ports my other equipment occupy I just install the driver and choose a "invalid port" and tell the driver install to yes, use this port when it complains if it's already in use.
________________________________ From: Mike va3mw va3mw@portcredit.net To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 12:24 AM Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Windows 8
Here is how delete your old ports that are left over from other adapters. 1. Click Start 2. Click Run 3. Type cmd.exe in the textbox and click OK 4. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 and hit ENTER 5. Type cd\windows\system32 and hit ENTER 6. Type start devmgmt.msc and hit ENTER 7. When the device manager opens, click the View menu 8. Click Show Hidden Devices 9. Click on the + sign next to the Ports to see the full list of Com ports being used 10. Highlight the port you wish to delete and then press delete Mike va3mw
On Feb 10, 2014, at 12:00 AM, kc6iih kc6iih@aol.com wrote:
The exclamation mark means you have a conflict. Fix your port settings.
Jock KC6IIHSent via the Samsung Galaxy S™ III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: Wes Date:02/09/2014 7:56 PM (GMT-08:00) To: chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: [chirp_users] Windows 8
I used Chirp on my XP machine with a Boefeng UV-5R and on Kenwood D72. I had no problems connecting until I went to Windows 8 Now when I use the cables and start with download from radio the box for the Com port does not comes up. Nothing happens. I check device manager and it shows an exclamation mark in the com port setting. Any suggestions