Hello,

Is there any way to restart or reboot certain drivers without actually rebooting windows. For example, let's say FS9 is running and there's a windows crash, but FS9 still continues to function, can I reset that particular driver by going into command prompt somehow. I'm having this problem with my PL 2303 USB to serial adaptor drivers, and it seems to me that if I can force a reboot of the driver without having to reboot windows, it's something I can live with until I can see my way clear to getting some new PFC controls. Thanks for any help.

 

J.C.

Yes, it is possible.

1. you have to identify the unit driver name. In your example: PL2303 USB to serial adaptor. That should be available from your Device Manager listing;

2. Select the "Driver" tab of the identified component and press "Disable" you'll hear the PlugandPLay sound and press "Enable" to re-enable the device, again the PlugandPlay sound will confirm that it has been reset.

 

However, there is a better way of doing this.

1. going back to the hardware device properties, go to the "Details" tab and select "Hardware IDs"; It should be something like: "HID\VID_0406D&PID.......etc...."

2. look up for "Devcon.exe". If you have it, it should be in "System32" folder, if not you should have no problem finding it on the web.

3. so the idea here is to create a batch file that will use devcon and the hardware id to be reset. Here is an example of my batch file to reset my CHPRO pedals after my PC returns from "sleep" mode:

"devcon.exe restart "@USB\VID_068E&PID_00F2\6&13F4C3E&0&1" sleep.vbs 1000"

RESTART is the command that will restart the device

"@......" is the hardware ids of the device

sleep.vbs is a small script visual basic file that will wait a certain number of ms after waking up from sleep mode. You don't have to use this.

 

All you have to do is to create a shortcut (with maybe a keyboard shortcut) that will initiate the "devcon.exe restart" for your device.

Hopefully, that should be useful and clear :huh:

Pierre