No waterfall after 1.4.11 upgrade

Mike James - WJ7U

After upgrading to SSDR 1.4.11, I noticed that there was no waterfall / panafall on the panadapter. Following are the symptoms:
- Radio is Flex 6500. Windows 7 SP1. No driver changes recently.
- Can create / destroy panadapters, but the waterfall never appears.
- Can create / destroy slices. These can be tuned by either the mouse or flexcontrol.
- Radio changes modes / bands OK.
- Receiver audio seems OK. Tuning around seems to bring in signals appropriate to the displayed frequency.
- Clicking the Tune button results in the normal 10W tune carrier indicated on my LP100 wattmeter. However, there is no change in either the SSDR RF Power or SWR meters.
- Performing a Factory Reset (including removing DC power) doesn't help.
- Downgrading to 1.4.0 or 1.4.3 doesn't help.

This is the first time I've experienced anything but normal operation from the radio. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike WJ7U

Mike va3mw

What happens if you uninstall both 1.4.0 and 1.4.3, reboot and re-install 1.4.11.137?  

Mike va3mw

Jim Gilliam

Are you sure you are left-clicking on the correct bottom part of the screen to reveal the waterfall?

Marv

Try clicking on display and adjusting color saturation and once you get what you like save to your default profile.  Marv W0ZK

Mike James - WJ7U

Michael,

Tried that, but no change.

Thanks,
Mike

Mike James - WJ7U

Marv,

Thanks for your response. There is no waterfall at all (the panadapter window is blank except for the slice display and vertical yellow line.

Mike

Mike James - WJ7U

Jim,

Clicking on the icon to add a panadapter works - I get more panadapters; they just don't display the received signal or panafall. See screenshot below for the panadapter as it currently looks.

Thanks,
Mike WJ7U

Mike James - WJ7U

Update: After trying complete uninstalls, including using CCleaner on the registry, I installed 1.4.11 on another PC, where it worked normally. I then used the nuclear option on the original PC (reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch). This resulted in normal operation.

Mike - WJ7U

Jim Gilliam

You might want to use an external USB drive and create a disk image so you don't have to go through the reinstall again. There is an imaging program available in Windows XP, 7, and 8.1. Don't know about 10.

DrTeeth

There are free and more intuitive programs. Try Macrium Relect - they do a free version. The *only* reason I do not use this myself is that I have more than 4 primary partitions on my main hard disk.

Eric-KE5DTO

Wild guess here, but it sounds like there may have been a firewall issue.