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(02-20-2017, 10:18 AM)batwater Wrote: I've recently come to discover a wonderful "feature" in Windows, been there forever from what I read that I had not been affected by it until very recently. The feature I speak of is the serial port demon.  In short, M$ in their infinite wisdom (I'm sure some engineer thought this was a good idea) will automatically assign an input device to a serial port streaming recognizable data to the port when the operating system boots. And it's random, so if you boot and there happens to be no data coming in port at the time of initialization the system starts normally and the CQC driver serial port assignment(s) work correctly. However if you are really lucky then the undesirable assignment occurs and boom the driver doesn't work since it can't obtain it's assigned serial port.
I'm thinking about trying a delayed start on the serial port device service and CQC to see if I can trick Windows to not do the undesirable assignment.  
Dean, which service(s) would I need to delay along with the serial port service to test this theory out?
BTW this is a brand new system with performance room to spare, it's probably too damn fast.
I'm also considering a different serial input method, like a multi-port card (I need 7) but they are big $$$ for anything of quality.
I have used Digi Edgeport usb to serial boxes without fail on my win 8.1 machine and would highly recommend them. They have an 8 port unit that would suffice. I purchased used on ebay (one is currently listed for $30).
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(02-22-2017, 03:45 PM)Dean Roddey Wrote: Any luck?
Not yet, work / life interfered, hope to get back to it this weekend.
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(02-23-2017, 03:54 AM)Bugman Wrote: (02-20-2017, 10:18 AM)batwater Wrote: I've recently come to discover a wonderful "feature" in Windows, been there forever from what I read that I had not been affected by it until very recently. The feature I speak of is the serial port demon.  In short, M$ in their infinite wisdom (I'm sure some engineer thought this was a good idea) will automatically assign an input device to a serial port streaming recognizable data to the port when the operating system boots. And it's random, so if you boot and there happens to be no data coming in port at the time of initialization the system starts normally and the CQC driver serial port assignment(s) work correctly. However if you are really lucky then the undesirable assignment occurs and boom the driver doesn't work since it can't obtain it's assigned serial port.
I'm thinking about trying a delayed start on the serial port device service and CQC to see if I can trick Windows to not do the undesirable assignment.  
Dean, which service(s) would I need to delay along with the serial port service to test this theory out?
BTW this is a brand new system with performance room to spare, it's probably too damn fast.
I'm also considering a different serial input method, like a multi-port card (I need 7) but they are big $$$ for anything of quality.
I have used Digi Edgeport usb to serial boxes without fail on my win 8.1 machine and would highly recommend them. They have an 8 port unit that would suffice. I purchased used on ebay (one is currently listed for $30).
Interesting, thanks for sharing, I'll take a look at that.
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(02-23-2017, 08:38 AM)batwater Wrote: (02-22-2017, 03:45 PM)Dean Roddey Wrote: Any luck?
Not yet, work / life interfered, hope to get back to it this weekend.
Well this was a bust.
  I don't have anything I can delay on startup with regard to the serial port driver.  Exploring other hardware options.
