Nick1150
12-19-2010, 01:23 PM
Hi,
During the last few days I upgraded my PM clients to new ones with Win7 OS this time, instead of Win XP I had in the past.
Almost everything during the upgrade went straight forward, except the CDU. Unfortunately Win7 didn't assign any COMM port to the CDU. I googled around and found out in the Engravity forum that many folks had the same issues as mine with the Engravity driver and win7. So there is a new driver for Win7 (silabs driver)... which was downloaded and comm port was assigned. Everything ok then ?
Nope...
1. What I noticed was that the menu of the CDU is not the same as before with the Engravity driver. The differences are not huge, but I am used to type my flight plans and now I have to search around alot. I also noticed that there is no settings option in the menu, and I can see some weird things like Lbs instead of Kgs, the AIRACS are not there anymore, the usual POS-> ROUTE-> PERF -> N1, etc... procedure is not there too, not to mention SID and STARS... Anyway to make the lonk story short, the CDU works, but it is not like the ordinary 737 menu I am used to.
2. After installing silabs driver, 737-800 aircraft is not in the list of aircrafts anymore. I have choosed 737-700 instead but I would prefer to have the option of 800 as before.
I am sure many of you guys have upgraded to WIN7, so you must have faced this issue, right ? Is there any solution in this ?
I was thinking to uninstall and reinstall PM CDU, but really would that make a difference ? Just asking :roll:
Would appreciate your help,
Thanks
During the last few days I upgraded my PM clients to new ones with Win7 OS this time, instead of Win XP I had in the past.
Almost everything during the upgrade went straight forward, except the CDU. Unfortunately Win7 didn't assign any COMM port to the CDU. I googled around and found out in the Engravity forum that many folks had the same issues as mine with the Engravity driver and win7. So there is a new driver for Win7 (silabs driver)... which was downloaded and comm port was assigned. Everything ok then ?
Nope...
1. What I noticed was that the menu of the CDU is not the same as before with the Engravity driver. The differences are not huge, but I am used to type my flight plans and now I have to search around alot. I also noticed that there is no settings option in the menu, and I can see some weird things like Lbs instead of Kgs, the AIRACS are not there anymore, the usual POS-> ROUTE-> PERF -> N1, etc... procedure is not there too, not to mention SID and STARS... Anyway to make the lonk story short, the CDU works, but it is not like the ordinary 737 menu I am used to.
2. After installing silabs driver, 737-800 aircraft is not in the list of aircrafts anymore. I have choosed 737-700 instead but I would prefer to have the option of 800 as before.
I am sure many of you guys have upgraded to WIN7, so you must have faced this issue, right ? Is there any solution in this ?
I was thinking to uninstall and reinstall PM CDU, but really would that make a difference ? Just asking :roll:
Would appreciate your help,
Thanks