Ext-IO versus Windows 2000 SP4

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Darth_vader

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First off, does anybody know of an Ext-IO DLL that's actually compatible with Win2K and HD-SDR?

I've just shot almost three extremely maddening hours trying to get what is apparently my RTL2832U/E4000 (considering I actually paid for a R820T, and that's what it's marked as on the chassis) going on that box to absolutely no avail. I have tried using Zadig and both the usual Spench USRP package (http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/USRP_Interfaces) that I seem to see referred to in just about every tutorial I've come across, and the "other" Ext-IO from https://github.com/josemariaaraujo/ExtIO_RTL that somebody had referred to in an earlier thread. The Ext-IO option is always grayed out in the HD-SDR options flyout with an error message saying it can't be loaded. It also gives me error messages on startup depending on which Ext-IO plugin I have selected; the Spench one gives me a reference to an invalid instruction in my WS2_32.DLL file (component of Window$ that I can't do much about) and the josemariaaraujo file gives me an error message relating to the procedure entry point EncodePointer not being found in my KERNEL32.DLL file.

And what's the deal with this "WinUSB" thing and where do I download it from? Zadig just tries to stick me with the libusb-win32 or libusbk options which, from nearly all accounts I've read, don't work.

I'm reluctant to start using SDR Sharp (not like it actually works--I've tried) since that'd mean I'd have yet another interface to learn, just to add to the already-incurred madness. I now have a splitting headache from all this and am about to just give up and ship the thing back to Nooelec.

And lest you should want to run it by me that I should downgrade my box to XP, bear in mind that, in all likelihood, it will never happen: the digital restriction management incorporated in XP makes it practically worthless for what I use it for, and the "product activation" crap Micro$pend have put in helps to increase its uselessness, since that machine is not (and never will be) connected to any network. Unless somebody wouldn't mind telling me where I can download a patch to disable or (preferrably) bypass that needless little bug, since I do have an OEM XP installer disc somebody gave me some time ago...
 
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Do a virtual machine, you will be able to keep your 2k and have xp on the same hardware

If you own a ligit xp you can activate over the phone with ms, be aware they will ask you questions specifically about the original hardware the cd was bundled with.

Linux can be a good alternate to windows
 

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I have same problem

I use also win2k and cant run the HDSDR
If you find a solution please post it here im sure there are others with same problem

I asked it long ago and got no reply
Regards
Ronen
 

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Actually, HDSDR by itself (i.e. through the sound card or a WAV file) works fine in 2KSP4; only trying to make it "get along" with Ext-IO in that Win distribution has proven an exercise in futility.

That said, I've had some luck in getting it to cooperate with the josemariaaraujo Ext-IO in Win98 (first edition), of all things, using Kernelex set to XP SP2 compatibility mode. I can get it to the point where it gives me the grayed-out "ExtIO: Device not ready..." error message in the "Options" flyout, which is slightly encouraging, at the very least, compared to what I was getting with it under 2K. Haven't been able to get the Zadig driver to install in 98 (also running in SP2 compatibility mode) even though it gives me a "phony" WinUSB option. Not surprising since 98, by default, doesn't come with WinUSB. Going to try to get hold of a WinUSB package from somewhere one of these days and see what it does in 98, and if it'll make my 2832 go.

"If you own a light XP, you can activate over the phone with M$. Be aware they will ask you questions, specifically about the original hardware the CD was bundled with."

It's a "home edition" (so I guess that'd be a "light XP") OEM disc that a friend got from another friend of his, who probably acquired it from godd-only-knows, and was just sitting unused in his junk box so he gave it to me. Neither of us have any clue as to the type of hardware it came packed in with.

Supposedly it's possible (hearsay) to disable the "activation" bug by booting into safe mode right after installation and tweaking a couple settings in the registry, but I've only read of that being done with the "Pro" version (the "heavy XP", conversely.) Don't know what it'll do in the one I have. If I do end up with no other choice than to proceed down the dark, winding path of doom to XP, that'll have to be one of the first things to go. This will be necessary once Micro$pend inevitably stop supporting XP in a couple years, since I'm generally known to keep old/er OSes active on my non-networked machines for many years past their planned expiry dates.

Either that, or hopefully I should be able to track down a recent clean distribution of "XP Pro Performance Edition" somewhere (look it up with the Search Engine of Your Choice.)
 
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