MXT500 Programming Issue

[WRXJ624]

I have an MXT500 and am having issues programming it. I've tried two different USB cables, two different ports on my laptop. I've enabled USB Programming, but when I try to read the configuration, it can't find the port. I'm running Windows 11 Pro with all the updates. Any ideas?

[OffRoaderX]

4 minutes ago, WRXJ624 said:

Any ideas?

Yah.. My idea is that Windows sucks and this is almost certainly a driver/port/Windows-sucks type issue.  

In the Midland software is there an option to manually select the port and have you tried changing it?

...on the bright side, if you can't get it to work, its really not that difficult to program it manually.

[AdmiralCochrane]

I have had to go thru as many as 5 virtual ports in software to find a compatible port for some software.  The ports aren't the physical plug in ports on your machine, they are the virtual ports in the software.

As the Grand Master points out, different drivers can have their own preference for one port over another - and Windows sucks.

[SteveShannon]

It really helps to know which port to choose if you’re watching the ports in Device Manager when you plug in the cable. You’ll see which virtual port is created by the driver.