<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM, kc6iih <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kc6iih@aol.com" target="_blank">kc6iih@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>The exclamation mark means you have a conflict. Fix your port settings.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jock KC6IIH</div><br></div></blockquote></div>Jock,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">You are partially correct.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The exclamation mark is because there is a conflict with the driver and the chip in the programming cable.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Most inexpensive programming cables have an unauthorized copy of Prolific's USB-to-Serial chip in them. These copied chips use the same Prolific driver that the genuine Prolific chips require. Prolific eventually changed their drivers after v3.3.2.105 to not function (hence the error) with the unauthorized copies.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Windows Vista and newer (ie: 7, 8 & 8.1), will automatically install the latest driver when a USB cable with a Prolific type chip is plugged into a USB port that doesn't already have a driver configured. If the cable has an unauthorized chip, the driver installation is guaranteed to fail.<br>
<br>The only fix that will eliminate the conflict with an unauthorized Prolific chip is to downgrade the driver to at least v3.3.2.105. Some of the Chinese programming software have a conflict with the v3.3.2.102 or v3.3.2.105 Prolific driver versions (CHIRP has no such issues and runs fine) so the general recommendation is to downgrade to the v3.2.0.0 driver.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Windows XP does not automatically install the latest driver, but is recommended that v2.0.2.1 is the driver version to install to avoid a conflict with an unauthorized copy of the Prolific chip.<br>
<br>Other solutions would be to purchase and use a programming cable with genuine
Prolific chip or a programming cable with another brand of chip (FTDI
for example).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Jim KC9HI<br></div></div>