Port 7 on 2210

HungryHaggis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 9

I just bought an iPaq 2210 and the Sysonchip CF Plus card after hearing great reviews about both. I had a few “quirks” setting up the card but can’t quite understand the following problem :-

When I first insert the Sysonchip into the CF slot I can use "port 7" on the port settings in the Sysonchip viewer tool. However, the GPS tool won't allow me to select the "sysonchip CF_GPS_Receiver" (ie won't allow a tick in the box when I select the sysonchip). Any ideas ?.
After I “reset” the 2210 the Sysonchip won’t work on port 7, only port 1 ?. This in itself isn’t a problem, but when I then go to the GPS tool and select “Sysonchip” in the drop-down list of inputs it tells me that Port 1 isn’t a real port ?. Does anyone know why it reverts to port 1, and is there any way to force it to port 7 ?.

lbendlin · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

What GPS tool are you talking about ? The one that came with the card? Have you tried running a standard navigation program, and selected COM7 (or COM1) there?
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Bharat · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2004 Posts: 3

I found the GPS Viewer that came with the SysOnChip card to be very poor and misleading. I think you would be better off downloading one of the recommend utilities from this website and using those instead.

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Dave · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:23 pm Post subject:

It sounds like you have other software or perhaps drivers installed that are creating a conflict. Sometimes the only way is to uninstall these or even perform a hard reset and make sure the card is working with your TomTom Navigator and then slowly add the software back on until something breaks again. THat way by process of elimination you can find out what's causing the problem.

iPAQ 2210's CF slot for GPS is COM7, so if for some strange reason you are then getting COM1 to be used after a soft reset, then something is drastically wrong there and some driver is taking control of COM7.

rtjwilliams · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2004 Posts: 3

Did you ever get this one sorted. I have just upgrated to TOMTOM 3 and have the same problem, i have tied re installing v 2 with no result, tried hard reboot, soft reboot and still (using lead navigator software) tells me that the CF card is on COM1

Dave · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 7:42 am Post subject:

You may need to uninstall TomTom ~ GPS. This can cause problems not only with other applications seeing a Bluetooth GPS by re-mapping the ports, but also with CF cards.

Basically this was put in as a fudge driver and it re-maps ports to not allow other applications to talk direct, so TomTom is probably re-mapping it so the only port you can talk to the CF card on is COM1. Very annoying! Evil or Very Mad

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