Re: USB drivers install on Win7 x64
Gene E. Bloch
> Hi everybody,
> I'm trying to convince Windows 7 64bit to install the garmin USB
> drivers. Neither the setup itslef runs nor any of my attempts to
> direct windows to the .sys + .inf files extracted from the latest
> usb_drivers23.exe.
> Any way to get my card programmer set up under x64 win7?
> thanks
> Armin
One possibility is a virtual machine running an older version of
Windows. I do that for my Philips Pronto remote controls.
Caveats: the Microsoft VM that is downloadable for Vista and lesser
versions of 7 doesn't do USB - or didn't when I tried it nearly a year
ago (Vista x64 here).
I am using the free VMWare Player, which is fine in Vista; I can't
speak for 7.
You would need an available license of the older Windows. I happened to
have on hand a valid and unused XP Home.
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Gene Bloch 650.366.4267 lettersatblochg.com
maceda
Have Win7 64-bits, and had no problems installing the USB drivers. Are
you using the latest version?
Mine installed themselves in the Garmin folder witha folder named
USB_Drivers, which in turn has a subfolder named Amd64 (I have an
Intel processor)
Gene E. Bloch
> <let...@someplace.invalid> wrote:
>> One possibility is a virtual machine running an older version of
>> Windows. I do that for my Philips Pronto remote controls.
>>
>> Caveats: the Microsoft VM that is downloadable for Vista and lesser
>> versions of 7 doesn't do USB - or didn't when I tried it nearly a year
>> ago (Vista x64 here).
>>
>> I am using the free VMWare Player, which is fine in Vista; I can't
>> speak for 7.
>>
>> You would need an available license of the older Windows. I happened to
>> have on hand a valid and unused XP Home.
> Hi Gene,
> well, yes, but that's the last resort.
> If I look at Garmins comments for the drivers it explicitly says:
> Windows 7 x64! Unfortunately it does not install.
> So hopefully someone has seen the same and solved it.
> Armin
OK, I didn't realize they had x64 drivers for Win 7 (as you could
tell!). Sorry...
I see from another post (from maceda, who actually knows something),
that it should work :-(
BTW, AMD64 is Microsoft's code name for some 64-bit stuff on Intel and
AMD, for a reason I forgot. Maybe some of Intel's stuff is licensed
from AMD, or some such thing.
ps56k
"Armin Pfeffer" <new...@pfeffernet.de> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to convince Windows 7 64bit to install the garmin USB
> drivers. Neither the setup itslef runs nor any of my attempts to
> direct windows to the .sys + .inf files extracted from the latest
> usb_drivers23.exe.
> Any way to get my card programmer set up under x64 win7?
just curious - What's a Garmin Data Card Programmer ?
ps56k
"ps56k" <pschuman_...@interserv.com> wrote in message
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nevermind -
ahhhhh -
http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Data-Programmer-Cards-010-10776-00/dp/B000MVKZAC
Peter H. Coffin
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to convince Windows 7 64bit to install the garmin USB
> drivers. Neither the setup itslef runs nor any of my attempts to
> direct windows to the .sys + .inf files extracted from the latest
> usb_drivers23.exe.
> Any way to get my card programmer set up under x64 win7?
The GPS you're trying to support is something like 8 years old now?
You may have to buy an older computer to keep it running.
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