Icom FR4000 Programming question - COM Port Advice

[WSCR525]

Hi myGMRS friends - can anyone help me with this?   It's as much a PC question as a repeater question:

Have an ICOM FR4000-3 repeater that I'm trying to get on the air for GMRS. The duplexer has been retuned and I am now seeking to program the repeater for new frequencies, etc.  I have the programming cable and CS-FR3000 cloning software installed on my Windows (Windows 11) computer.  The program runs, but I can't get the computer to recognize the radio and I suspect it's a COM port issue.  NOTE: I'm more of a Mac guy so the settings for PCs are not really my thing....   The software has four COM port settings, COM1 through COM4, and I see no way in the program to expand/alter this. None of these four will allow the radio to be recognized. I understand PCs have more than four COM ports so I'm wondering if my USB port is some other port, and if there is a way to get things to line up.  Suggestions? 

[tcp2525]

Find out what com port your programming cable was assigned in Windows and manually change it to one that the software will recognize. That's it.

[WSCR525]

1 hour ago, tcp2525 said:

Find out what com port your programming cable was assigned in Windows and manually change it to one that the software will recognize. That's it.

Thanks - That sounds good.  Where in Windows do I find the port assignments? 

 

[SteveShannon]

2 minutes ago, WSCR525 said:

Thanks - That sounds good.  Where in Windows do I find the port assignments? 

 

Device Manager. 

[WSCR525]

51 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

Device Manager. 

OK I'll check it out...  Again I'm a Mac guy and I haven't navigated PC's since the DOS/Win3.1 days....

 

[SteveShannon]

13 hours ago, WSCR525 said:

OK I'll check it out...  Again I'm a Mac guy and I haven't navigated PC's since the DOS/Win3.1 days....

 

I have a similar sense of being lost whenever I work on my wife’s Mac. 

[gortex2]

I use a serail cable on my FR4000. I never got any aftermarket USB ones to work. Also may be a W11 issue. I still use a W95 PC for my programming as thats what I was using when I got the repeater. 

[MSN]

It could also be a cable driver issue. I have also needed to change the baud rate with some software but I don’t think I did with my FR 4000. I’m using windows 7.