Hey Fanatics!
Don't feel like the Lone Stranger, Arthur. I have been losing runs as well!
It's frustrating to be at, or near the starting line, and hear the laptop
*beep* knowing that I'm now carrying around 4.7 lb's of ballast. Does wonders
for the concentration as well. GEEZ! is becoming a new starting line curse
word. *grin*
I am disappointed that using the power module didn't correct the problem. That
was going to be MY next "fix." On the other hand, if it helps, anything is
better than the current situation.
As to the Palmtop...I was afraid that you were going to tell me that. Would
much rather be able to correct the situation rather than have to go through the
extra step of DL-ing the run(s) to the laptop to see it(them).
What say you Byron, et al?
Vreihen@yahoo.com wrote
>Geez, (no pun intended!) I thought that I was the only >one
>having this problem!!!
>
>In my case, it got a little bit better when I started >using
>the external power module. Still, it wasn't 100%. >Sometimes,
>GEEZ refuses to even see the cube present after a few >runs,
>and a reboot was the easiest fix. (My notebook is set >up to
>automatically start GEEZ on reboot, and rebooting is >the easiest
>thing to do when you can't see the screen in the >sun.) If
>anybody's collecting hardware data, it's an Acer 382 >w/150 Mhz
>Pentium [non-MMX] and 16MB RAM.
>
>In troubleshooting this, I disabled all power >management,
>thinking that the CPU was dozing off and losing the >cube. Then,
>I tried keeping the notebook plugged into my power >inverter
>between runs. Even then, it was rare to get all of my >runs
>captured on any given day. At the Petersburg ProSolo, >I
>only managed to get 4 out of 8 runs captured on >Saturday. :-(
>I didn't even bother hooking it up on Sunday. :-( :-(
>That was the last time that I tried capturing with my >notebook.
>
>If you want to avoid loads of frustration, spend the >$159
>or whatever a cheap Palm goes for these days.....
>
>-Arthur
VettPilot@aol.com wrote:
>
> While in staging the GEEZ software frequently "drops ready" by going
> NO DEVICE.
>
> In order to overcome this condition I sometimes have to unplug the
> G-Cube, and the serial connector to get GEEZ to recognize the device,
> and begin polling again.
>
> I'm losing a lot of run recording due to this aggrevating condition.
>
> I'm using a 486/33 laptop w/ the G-Cube plugged directly into the
> serial port.
>
> Is the Cube losing power (ie not enough power going thru the serail
> interface)?
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