Electrically_Bound
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I posted a problem on another thread and after finding the solution, I thought I would make a seperate thread to give everybody a heads up and help prevent others from having the same problem.
There have been two applications that I have tried to run on two seperate computers, Control flash and a terminal emulation program. Both programs returned an error saying that com1 was taken. Here is todays problem and solution from another post:
"I rebooted the computer and nothing was running - at least in the toolbar. I talked to another engineer at work about this problem and he said that RSLinx has the tendency to "hijack" com1. He was right. I went into task manager and then looked at the processes. Lo and behold, RSLINX.EXE was shown as running but using 0 cpu time. I ended the process and that fixed the problem.
It turns out that RSLINX did the same thing to my desktop. Once it is run, RSLINX.EXE stays running as a process - even if you reboot the computer. The only way to kill RSLINX.EXE is to go into task manager and kill it. I am running the latest version of RSLINX on Windows XP. The engineer said it also happens on other versions of RSLinx and other operating systems."
There have been two applications that I have tried to run on two seperate computers, Control flash and a terminal emulation program. Both programs returned an error saying that com1 was taken. Here is todays problem and solution from another post:
"I rebooted the computer and nothing was running - at least in the toolbar. I talked to another engineer at work about this problem and he said that RSLinx has the tendency to "hijack" com1. He was right. I went into task manager and then looked at the processes. Lo and behold, RSLINX.EXE was shown as running but using 0 cpu time. I ended the process and that fixed the problem.
It turns out that RSLINX did the same thing to my desktop. Once it is run, RSLINX.EXE stays running as a process - even if you reboot the computer. The only way to kill RSLINX.EXE is to go into task manager and kill it. I am running the latest version of RSLINX on Windows XP. The engineer said it also happens on other versions of RSLinx and other operating systems."