After spending most of the day yesterday mounting Lynx#2 at the front door and finishing the rope light connections to it and then connecting a new cat5 I made to the Splitter, I fired everything up. At :45 into the sequence the dreaded "Access" message hit me again. I spent the next three hours experimenting with another expensive USB cable to the Dongle, switching ports on the Splitter, eliminating the Splitter, trying different turn on steps, adding ferrite chokes to the cabling... all to no avail.
I went back to the #1 expensive USB cable and the Dongle>Lynx#1 ran for two minutes and then the Access error. Took a break for dinner.
Back from dinner, reboot, check Device Mgr etc, same config as above, start Vixen, start sequence, powered up Lynx#1 at 22:50 and it kept running! I woke up at 01:50 and it was still on!
One thing I noticed - and I am not a Windoes fan - is that the PC makes a sound when I disconnect or connect the USB cable. At various times when a sequence was running I would hear a similar sound. There's nothing else running on this PC. I have no idea why that sound was happening while the sequence played.
Now, this morning I started Vixen and the sequence, and it's running for 30 mins. Looks like more experiments in store now to get Lynx #2 up... I think another set of cat5 cables is the next step. Any other ideas?
Thanks for your help
John