The issue he is having is NOT a SERT issue. It is a fairly common problem with HD's new SESPT product that he has. Trying to compare the SERT and the SESPT with Vista and XP is not the same.

 

You're kidding, right??? Hope so, as RS-232/16550 compatibility is still a cornerstone of the core OS IO and will be for probably years to come. Problem is that there are so many consumers who know little, if anything, about serial communications nor did they live through the days where serial configuration was a standard, core competency for anyone using a personal computer. Nowadays, with Plug and Pray, USB, alternate operating systems, etc., those skills appear to be forgotten black magic.

JMHO, of course.
Roger

 

Ha Ha!

Comparing anything Windows with any sort of "good" computing environment is an utter joke. The best possible scenario for any of these software developers is to write the code in Java so it is 100% portable to whatever the end-user wants to run on their computers. Requiring the user to obtain/use an MS Windows license is a terrible disservice!

Steve, I'm going to call you in the next few days with a few pointed questions regarding my already-purchased and delivered TTS tuner. Please set aside some time to spend with me on the phone. Okay?

Thanks!

Glen

 

I had no problem with serts on my new vista H-P lap top. Only isue was i had to get a usb cabel from belken and then downloaded driver for vista from there web site. No problems from then on.

 

Someone help me with this. When installed on XP, the base program was put in a file "C:\Program files\Super Tuner\" and some of the files were put in a "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Super Tuner\" subdirectory. When installed on Vista, I can't find the the latter directory. In other words, where does Vista put the actual "Tuning Files"? Thanks.
GPM

 

Vista moved the Users directory to the root drive, so you should have "C:\Users\All Users\*" (actually, All Users is actually a link to ProgramData) which is probably where the data are stored.

Roger

 

Went back to my source on this - I will have to retract my statements regarding Vista support for serial... my bad (thanks alot source).

 

I didn't realize there was a new product, so I was not comparing them. I thought the discussion was regarding SERT.

 

No worries... since the advent of the 16550 UART (universal asyncronous receiver/transmitter - the chip responsible for RS-232 IO communications) way back in the late 80's, if I recall correctly, all PC manufacturers have included them as core components and all Intel operating system manufacturers have included drivers and support (and will for many years to come, I believe).

Serial communications can be a challenge to set up properly, at times, because they can be extremely sensitive to resource conflicts. If your serial interface doesn't work properly:

I had a conflict for my TMax, using the Radio Shack USB adapter on my Vista laptop, but simply plugging into a different USB connector on the laptop forced it to use a different COM port. I then identified which COM port it was assigned and set the software to use that port, and it has been stable and steady since.

Hope this helps - probably way too much information, but too much is usually better than too little!

Roger

 

Thanks and this is where I suspect my culprit exists. My Vista "C:\Users\All Users\" subrirectory does not contain any application subdirectories or files, only music, videos, & documents. Maybe it's just a bad install (10 times) & I need to manually extract the application files & create the "applications" subdirectory. In my first post to this thread I mentioned that I couldn't get "Calibration Quick Sync" to work either. I got it to work by editing the properties of the start button to start in the Vista specific path rather than the XP specific path. I really don't believe this program is Vista certified.
GPM