[time-nuts] Win 7 and Thunderbolt

[Michael Perrett]

I went a different route - I bought a multiport serial card (PCIE RS232C)
and have a dedicated, unique, serial port for the Tbolt. I put it on COM 15,
which did not even exist prior to the addition and have had no conflicts
since. Just added /15 to the .exe command line.

PC: Home made I7-875 CPU OC to 4GHZ, 12GB RAM, dual 250GB SSD in Raid 0,
Fidelity Titanium audio card, HD-5970 graphics card all operating on WIN 7
64B Ultimate edition.

Michael / K7HIL

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf at omen.com
> wrote:

> I replaced a 2.22 version Thunderbolt with a 3.0 version
> and Windows 7 Pro 64 bit went nuts.  After some Googling
> it became apparent that some bagbiter MS software was
> interrogating the serial ports looking for a serial ballpoint
> pointer.   Windows started hallucinating as it tried to parse
> GPS data as cursor movements and mouse clicks.
>
> After reinstalling Windows twice I saw a message suggesting
> disabling the ballpoint driver.  That works so far.  Don't remove
> it, it will just come back.  Disable it.
>
> The 3.0 version seems to do a much better job keeping things
> steady than 2.22 dis.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R     caf at omen.com   www.omen.com
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