To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with service pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out about chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any problems at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there study your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and and use chrip you well not have any problems with this program..
This makes it sound easy but it wasn't at all.
The program failing to start has noting to do with the cable or the radio.
It has to do with the fact that Chirp requires SP3 and Windows XP is not something that upgrades easily to SP3 from SP1 or SP2. If you don't believe me, read the hundreds of horror stories all over the web. If it was just me that would be one thing. In the case of my laptop, Chirp would not start at all, so I know it hasn't checked what radio, drivers or cable is connected.
On 11 Mar 2013 at 12:23, jim wrote:
To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with service pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out about chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any problems at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there study your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and and use chrip you well not have any problems with this program..
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I've found that you have to run it as administrator to work. It will not show menus until it can access the serial i/o. 73, Alan - W6ARH P.S. It doesn't work at all with my Yeasu radios under 32 bit Win 7. It does work on the same computer with the live CD.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Bry Carling bcarling@cfl.rr.com wrote:
** This makes it sound easy but it wasn't at all.
The program failing to start has noting to do with the cable or the radio.
It has to do with the fact that Chirp requires SP3 and Windows XP is not something that upgrades easily to SP3 from SP1 or SP2. If you don't believe me, read the hundreds of horror stories all over the web. If it was just me that would be one thing. In the case of my laptop, Chirp would not start at all, so I know it hasn't checked what radio, drivers or cable is connected.
On 11 Mar 2013 at 12:23, jim wrote:
*> To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with* *> service* *> pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out* *> about* *> chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any* *> problems* *> at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there * *> study* *> your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and * *> and use* *> chrip you well not have any problems with this program..* *> * *> _______________________________________________* *> chirp_users mailing list* *> chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com* *> http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users* *> * *> * *> -----* *> No virus found in this message.* *> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com* *> Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6164 - Release Date:* *> 03/11/13* *> *
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I'm on a trip and decided to bring my laptop, programming cable and UV-5R. I have never installed a programming software on it before. Setting it up was not without issue, but it wasn't a big deal either.
The first thing I did was plugged in the cable to see if the usb-to-serial driver would install. No joy. No big deal. I just went to the Miklor website and downloaded the driver for Windows XP. Driver installed, COM4 assigned, cable working.
The next thing was to download and install the latest CHIRP daily. I installed it and launched CHIRP. Problem. I got the dreaded..
"Application cannot run because application configuration is incorrect"
A quick google and I visited http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5582 to get the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. Once it was installed, I launched CHIRP again. Success.
I plugged in my UV-5R, selected Radio -> Dowload From Radio. The next dialog had already correctly selected COM4 so I set Vendor to Baofeng and Model to UV-5R and started the download. The UV-5R was read the very first time.
Jim KC9HI
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:23 PM, jim jmsrandazzo@gmail.com wrote:
To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with service pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out about chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any problems at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there study your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and and use chrip you well not have any problems with this program..
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A quick google and I visited http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=5582 to get the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package. Once it was installed, I launched CHIRP again. Success.
Right, it's not that SP3 is required, but rather that this library needs to be on your system. Lots (and lots) of older software will actually revert versions of system libraries to older versions when they install, which seems to leave folks in various states of broken.
I'm not sure whether the SP3 relation is real or just a good step in the right drection of having a consistent set of libraries on your system or not.
Jim, perhaps we need a dedicated page on the wiki for this issue (like the port settings one) where we can offer some more direct solutions for folks that have worked for others in the past?
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