<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br>73,<br></div>Alan - W6ARH<br></div>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.<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Bry Carling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcarling@cfl.rr.com" target="_blank">bcarling@cfl.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">This makes it sound easy but it wasn't at all.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The program failing to start has noting to do with the cable or the radio.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">It has to do with the fact that Chirp requires SP3 and Windows XP is not something</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">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.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 11 Mar 2013 at 12:23, jim wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> To any one out there .. that have Windows XP i have Windows XP with</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> service</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> pack 3 and i do not have any problems with XP what i have found out</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> about</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> chrip is find the right cable or drivers and you well not have any</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> problems</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> at all i have used chrip with win 7 win 8 win xp come on out there </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> study</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> your Radio or radios you are going to buy get the right stuff and </i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> and use</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>> chrip you well not have any problems with this program..</i></span></font></div>
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