Minitor IV Programming problems... (Com port issue?)
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:37 pm
I obtained a functional Minitor IV SV a week or so ago, and can't get it to work right along with the programmer. I know the programming software and docks work, because someone in our department was using them prior to me obtaining them. He's unavailable for questions at this time.
Here's what's happening...
I plug the programmer into the com1 port of my computer. Sometimes it will read the codeplug off of the pagers. Sometimes it will not, saying a serial port error - about 50% of the time. Most of the time, if I go into the system settings and disable, and then reenable the com port, it works fine for the next read. Writing? Worked once... and only once. I am constantly getting com port serial errors.
This happened on 2 computers - one with XP and 1 com port, and on win 98, with 2 com ports.
This is driving me nutz! The first time I got it to work, I got what I believed to be the programming done - the new pager received on the two frequencies that it needed to - but didn't alert on either set of tones programmed in.
I'm having a heck of a time with this.
Any comments/helpful hints?
Dave Rinke
[email protected]
Here's what's happening...
I plug the programmer into the com1 port of my computer. Sometimes it will read the codeplug off of the pagers. Sometimes it will not, saying a serial port error - about 50% of the time. Most of the time, if I go into the system settings and disable, and then reenable the com port, it works fine for the next read. Writing? Worked once... and only once. I am constantly getting com port serial errors.
This happened on 2 computers - one with XP and 1 com port, and on win 98, with 2 com ports.
This is driving me nutz! The first time I got it to work, I got what I believed to be the programming done - the new pager received on the two frequencies that it needed to - but didn't alert on either set of tones programmed in.
I'm having a heck of a time with this.
Any comments/helpful hints?
Dave Rinke
[email protected]