Upgraded to Win2000 from 98se - Calibration & Resources buttons greyed

[drjnet]

Hi,

I recently upgraded from win98se to win2000. I am using:

- Futaba SkySport 4
- Interface cable I got off the net which works on win98 fine
- FMS version 2 beta 7

As far as I can tell, my com1 config (bios & windows) is identical as before but now, the resource and config buttons dont work on the following options:

Parallel / Serial IRQ interface - 32bit VXD (used this on win98)
Parallel / Serial IRQ interface - 16bit DLL

The only one I can click config on is Serial PIC interface, which doesnt seem to respond from the tranny???

Do I need a different cable or setup for win2000???

PLEASE HELP, im getting withdrawal symptoms!!!!!

Ta,

drjnet

[johnhlong]

Windows 2000 does NOT support the serial or parallel port interfaces.

Your choices are:
1. Keyboard
2. PIC interface
3. Joystick interface
4. Audio interface


John

[drjnet]

Thanks,

So the PIC is just a different cable then, correct?

dj

[johnhlong]

DJ,

The PIC is an interface cable with a small micro-computer in it that converts the PPM signal from your transmitter to encoded data strings that FMS uses to determine just what you are doing with the control sticks on the transmitter.

The original serial and parallel interfaces just condition the amplitude of the original signal out of the transmitter and pass it on to the computer and let the processing of the PPM pulse streem be handeled by the computer program.

Bottom line is that the new PIC interface is the NEW inprover version. It should be more acurate in the long run and less likely to interferance problems.

Think of them as version I and version II.

John