lindeborg Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 I've had a GM5x5x5 pcb and a GM5 laying around for some time but last spring I put the interface together. At first I had some issues with bad connections between the MIDI sockets and the chip but I think that is all sorted now. Problem is that although the interface installs and shows up in Windows XP (both in USBDeview and in computer management) no ports are available in any program. When I plug the interface in the main LED lights up all right and then goes out after a short time, just as I understand it should. When I connect a MIDI source to any of the inputs and the source sends MIDI messages both the main LED and the LED of that port lights up in sync with the messages. Any ideas of what might be wrong or what I should test next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted December 11, 2011 Report Share Posted December 11, 2011 How are the jumpers set? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindeborg Posted December 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 How are the jumpers set? All jumpers are closed... and I've got no eeprom installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 That'll set the gm5 into midibox.org configuration with 5 IOs. All good. The MIDI In works, which heavily suggests the module is fine, so my guess would be the issue is somewhere on the software side of your PC. Have you tried it on a different PC? Are you using the special ploytec driver that's linked to from somewhere on ucapps.de? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 WIN32 drivers here X64 drivers here ilmenator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindeborg Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Yes, I'm using the Ploytec driver. I'm running XP SP3 on the computer that I've tested on. Will check other PC with XP SP3 tonight. Any known problems with XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindeborg Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Oki, works on my netbook with XP SP3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindeborg Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 And after installing the driver once more, same version same everything, on my music PC the interface works there as well... Only strange thing is that port1 comes up as "ww kabel 1", but I can live with that. Thanks a lot for the input! I'm off to build my MIDIpal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogi Posted November 17, 2012 Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 Sorry to bump this thread up, but I just finished a DIY 5x5. Had similar "issue", seems to be working after two runs of the driver install and port one: ...comes up as "ww kabel 1", but I can live with that. As long as it's usable no big deal. I seem to remember something about changes to the INF to rename ports?? Does anyone have a link to the thread for the driver info, the fourm search is not helping much today. Yogi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antix Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Just soldered two GM5. GM5 drivers installed . I use Windows 7 . At system start win7 see only two devices, to make it see three GM5x5x5 I have to unplug and re-plug USB cables. Any experience about this? thanks Antix P.S. In SetupMain.ini I read this ALLOW_MULTIPLE_DEVICES=0 may "=1" for more than 1 GM5? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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