Any HPLX Users having connection issues?

[kbellis]

Pavel's plugin for the HP200LX has been working flawlessly in 32-bit TC for quite some on my Win7 64-bit PC ... until today. I'm pulling my hair out trying to think why, trouble shooting the obvious things like cables, COM port setting, HPLX plugin settings etc. - no easy answers to the problem and why TC refuses to connect. I even installed 7.56a (in its own folder) and a fresh download of Pavel's plugin and it had the same problem.

Has anybody that's using TC + the HPLX plugin experienced issues?

The last time I ran TC in late January 2014, everything worked normal.

Thank you for any ideas or comments.

Kelly

[kbellis]

Forget I said anything. Turns out the COM port is likely the issue as switching from the serial port off the MB to a fake serial-via-USB worked - YEAH!!

[jmadd]

My old HP 200LX lost its brains and I need to reconnect with my dusty cable into my laptop - I can't seem to get the port activated on the laptop - any help would be appreciated!

[ghisler(Author)]

I can't seem to get the port activated on the laptop

What do you mean with this? Do you get an error that the port is in use?

[jmadd]

well, I'm using an HP docking station and can't find a way of accessing the serial port on the back. I downloaded and installed the add-in but I can't find network neighborhood. Perhaps if I took the time to read the instructions I could manage this but being a male engineer, I'm not used to reading instructions.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm using an HP docking station and can't find a way of accessing the serial port on the back.

Get an USB to serial converter, they are very cheap and work well.

I can't find network neighborhood.

Alt+F1, then open drive "\".