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PinPoint DemoExtender not running Maxim DL 6x
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Hi Will,
Yes, I will do as you suggest and explain the error to the forum. And I do need to change the topic thread. I started with Maxim LE
back a few years ago as a learning starting point and am very comfortable with Maxim and Diffraction Limited. I too, am too old
to learn new tricks and don't want to start all over again.
What was so curious is that when I got the "Pinpoint LE restored successfully" message, and I tried to open Maxim 6, I received a new message that said "Maxim LE failed to downgrade PinPoint Full to LE. PInPoint has been disabled. Please contact customer support.
I am not sure what that means but just maybe Colin can explain it to me.
One last thing I accidently discovered was when I received the error "Pinpoint serial validation failed - no validator engine, code =?
= 2147221005" --- I would hit the OK button, and the message would not go away. Earlier, I had to do a forced shutdown of my?
PC which I did not like. But later, just for the sake of it, I kept clicking the OK button and after about the 7th?time, Maxim DL 6 would?
open! That was very odd and I don't think that is the correct way to go,
Anyway, thanks for all your appreciative time and effort.?
Eduardo
From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of WILL B via groups.io <william.bristow@...>
Sent:?Friday, March 14, 2025 7:32 PM To:[email protected] <[email protected]> Subject:?Re: [QSI-CCD] Driver Setup Dialog Error ?
Hi Eduardo.
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I suspect that something has changed in Windows 11 recently to cause this problem, or there is some unwanted side-effect of having installed MaxIm DL 7 previously.
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There is another MaxIm DL 6.x user with exactly the same problem just yesterday on the Diffraction Limited forum and he also reported today that the patch file does not seem to work, although his problem began with a Windows crash.
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I suggest that you update your topic thread on the MaxIm support forum and explain that you have the PinPoint Serial Validation Error and can¡¯t correct it by running the DemoExtender patch file on MaxIm DL 6.50 and then wait for Colin Haig of Diffraction
Limited to get back to you when he returns from vacation on Monday next week.
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To use your QSI 683 in the meantime you could try MaxIm D7 and the QSI ASCOM drivers again, remembering from earlier that you may have to uninstall and reinstall the QSI drivers a couple of times using Windows ¡°add and remove programs¡± in Windows Settings
before the QSI ASCOM driver gets properly installed.
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If you want to try a free alternative to MaxIm with the QSI683 then several QSI users here will be using N.I.N.A., although with the same limitations as in MaxIm DL 7 that you can¡¯t access all the features of the 683 camera through the QSI ASCOM driver.
Nevertheless N.I.N.A is a good match for the QSI 6 series cameras and appears from what I¡¯ve heard that it is a more stable capture program than MaxIm, and faster to download images from the camera. ?
Unfortunately I¡¯m tied into MaxIm myself because my observatory is run under DC3Dreams ACP control, which only works with MaxIm, PinPoint and FocusMax, and I¡¯ve put too many years into getting this setup working reliably unattended to change now (and getting
too old to learn new tricks also!).
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You can download the free capture application N.I.N.A.
and see if it meets your needs until Diffraction Limited can resolve the problem with PinPoint, but I can¡¯t help you with anything in N.I.N.A. as I don¡¯t use it.
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Will.
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