I bought a extension cable and had so many problems with no connections and dropouts, so I got one those cables in the link and all worked great I did a Registry clean of all com ports and all worked great I had a cable to our EQ8 USB prolithic and plugged it into the active 10 m cable and plugged it into the pc and it loaded up 2 drivers at the same time and worked great may be a registry clean may help !as it did the same thing on the netbook as well until I did a registry clean on it as well.
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