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Kenwood tk-2140/3140

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I'm trying to program a kenwood radio tk-3140 with a cable from valley enterprises and have down loaded the driver for windows 7 off there website. However, for some reason the kenwood software will not recognize the comport. The software being used is v1.11, what if anything am I missing. Is it a firmware issue?
 

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The USB driver available from Kenwood only works with 32 bit windows 7. Is your system running windows 7 64 bit per chance?
Have you checked the Prolific site to see if their driver supports your OS?
 
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So, its only effected by windows OS 7. The aftermarket should work out with earlier versions of windows, then in theory. I have an older OS system that I could try. Or is only that the kenwood cable is the only one that will work?
 

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If you are able to open the software, than that should not be the problem. Check your cable. Go under Device Manager and check your com ports and make sure your cable is showing up. Remember the com port that it is using and go back to the software and change to that com port. Thank there should be no problem. Now if your cable is not showing up under the com ports in Device Manager than either your cable is bad or Windows 7 does it again and not compatible with the cable. Which is most likely the case. I have to use Windows XP for all my programming. Try that.
 
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