<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>John, you won't necessarily get the yellow triangle of death</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>as the driver may be compatible with the cable but not with Chirp. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In the case of a counterfeit Prolific 2303, you might get a yellow </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york',
times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">triangle, I don't know because I don't have a counterfeit. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">In any case the recommended Win7 driver build is 3.2.0.0. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">That's what I use and have zero problems. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">One thing from Windows 7 is it will visit the Microsoft driver cloud</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">and look for a newer version even if you disable automatic updates.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Best thing is to retrofit the 3.2.0.0 drive while disconnected from the </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;">internet. And tell the driver installer where to find the driver files. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">And keep the cable plugged in by all means to the same port. Each time</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">you move the cable to a different USB port Windows will reassign a COM</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">ports and probably try to update the
driver. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Milton. </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John LaMartina <JohnLa@usa.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'Milton Hywatt' <mhywattt@yahoo.com>; 'Discussion of CHIRP' <chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 29, 2013 4:58
PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [chirp_users] help<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1075480964"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1075480964WordSection1"><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Russ,</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">There is nothing wrong with the version of CHIRP you are running.</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">When you say the driver is Up-to-Date, you have described the issue.</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3"
color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">As mentioned, you need to Back Date your driver to Prolific 3.2.0.0</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">The driver and an short explanation as to why can be found at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php</a></span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">In device manager, if there is a yellow warning triangle
under 'Ports' or 'Other Devices', </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">you have an incompatible driver.</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Please report back and let us know the result.</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:
12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">John K3NXU</span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.miklor.com/">http://www.miklor.com</a></span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"> </span></font></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com [mailto:chirp_users-bounces@intrepid.danplanet.com] <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Milton Hywatt<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 29, 2013 2:44 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> russell meredith; Discussion of CHIRP<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [chirp_users] help</span></font></div></div></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div><div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">The latest driver that will work with Baofeng is 3.2.0.0 for Windows
7. </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">Go here and read the facts about your radio and cable. It will probably</span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">get you sorted out: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/">http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/</a></span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><hr
size="1" width="100%" align="center"></span></font></div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> russell meredith <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kc9jav@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:kc9jav@yahoo.com">kc9jav@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>>
<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 29, 2013 7:59 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [chirp_users] help</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color:black;"></span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"><br><br></span></font></div><div id="yiv1075480964"><div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">Im running windows 7, version 0.3.1 of chirp. i have a baofeng uv5 with prolific chipped programming cord ,driver is up to date. I have downloaded the chirp program from the website. opened the program went to radio, clicked to download from radio, that is when it is supposed to have a window asking what radio I have. This
where there is no Window.</span></font></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">Russell Meredith<span class="yiv1075480964tab"> KC9JAV </span><br><span class="yiv1075480964tab">Assit Emergency Coordinator </span><br><span class="yiv1075480964tab">Clark County Indiana</span></span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv1075480964MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span
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