Reloading Fpro 7.6 on Win7- problems connecting Prod Manager to Summa T750 with USB

[Gene@mpls]

I am using W7 32bit which works fine but I cannot get the PM setup to give me the option to select USB as the port to connect like WXP has.
I have loaded all the USB drivers I can find- old and new. Summa cutter control sees it and will do a test cut OK. Seems like many years ago...
when I had a memory... I struggled with this when setting up the XP. I have 2 Summas- one old one with serial connector which works fine
and one newer one with USB which works fine with XP. Any help please? Thanks Gene

 

[Techman]

Reloading Fpro 7.6

what is Fpro 7.6???????????

 

[FrankW]

Regularly Flexi 7.6 is not compatible anymore with Win7. It could be that it works except specific functionality. As far as I remember versions up to 8.1 have problems wirh output ports

 

[player]

Have you tried running in XP mode in win7?

Do you have a usb hub? They will make whatever usb port they are plugged into a priority.

Do you have an old usb add-on card? Maybe an old card would be compatible?

 

[Gene@mpls]

Techman- sorry- I figured in the Flexi forum it was obvious but I guess when I check the new posts that I don't look to see what forum they are in either.

Frank W- it actually works perfectly on Win 7 32bit.

Player- does that have to be a powered hub? I tried with a new Win7pro 64bit and the XP mode would not see the ports for the (parallel dongle- also tried
a usb to parallel cable).

Thanks guys- I have been wrestling with this on and off for 2 days now and it's getting pretty stale

 

[player]

No it does not have to be powered. My CNC controller uses this trick.

 

[FrankW]

Frank W- it actually works perfectly on Win 7 32bit.

It don't work perfectly, because you can't drive your USB-Plotter, altough it is accessible through Summa Cutter Control. And problems with interfaces could be a compatibility problem.

 

[LittleSnakey]

In the product mangager if you right click on the plotter and select change port you should see in the list USB_Printer_1 or 2 exc. you have to pick one, send a test if the wrong printer starts then you have the wrong usb printer try another. We still use an old pnc-950 with the usb/parallel cable.
Hope this helps.

I am using W7 32bit which works fine but I cannot get the PM setup to give me the option to select USB as the port to connect like WXP has.
I have loaded all the USB drivers I can find- old and new. Summa cutter control sees it and will do a test cut OK. Seems like many years ago...
when I had a memory... I struggled with this when setting up the XP. I have 2 Summas- one old one with serial connector which works fine
and one newer one with USB which works fine with XP. Any help please? Thanks Gene

 

[Fastsigns2041]

I gave up on trying to get my summa d series to work with my new rip that uses win7.

I wound up creating a virtual winxp machine using VMware and just installing production manager on it.