Win7 64 bit QHY5v, PHD, EQMod etc.

[Gunnar]

Hello.

Will QHY5v, PHD, EQMod etc. run on Win7 64bit?

Gunnar

[cgarry]

I use a QHY5 with PHD, EQMod etc. with Win7 64bit and it works great. Not sure about the QHY5v though.

Cheers,

Chris

[David010167]

I use all of the above on Win7 64bit with no issues and I have the QHY5v

regards

David

[Gunnar]

That sounds promising. I have a QHY5v incoming and need to buy a laptop or netbook. ASUS EeePc 1215B maybee.. found out that most lappys comes with 64bit preinstalled.

[perfrej]

Same here. Win7x64 natively on a MacBook Pro, Neb2, PHD, ASCOM, EQMOD - the works except for your camera.

/p

[obscura]

There is an update for most QHYs' to 32/64 W7 incl. QHY5v on their website. Yet to see how it functions though.

[Starlight 1]

I can not get win 7 64 bit to work with EQ MOD on the HEQ5 pro synscan .

[riklaunim]

QHY5 and ST4 guiding works on Win7 64 for me. Didn't used EQmod as I don't need that.

[Starlight 1]

Ever thing set up ok but it will not guid useing Starry night may be it do not like Starry night program.

[datman]

Hi

I just bought a QHY5 and have HEQ5 Pro + Win 7 64bit. The only problem I have had is that if you go into ASCOM diagnostics and select camera after selexting QHY5 an error message appears saying the device is registered as 64 bit but the driver is 32 bit please contact ........vendor

Also when I first go into PHD an error message appears but if I ignore it PHD works OK. Also if I come out of PHD and then restart it the error does not show!!

[riklaunim]

Did you used latest drivers from: QHY CCD software Download ?

[datman]

Hi

Yes I checked and as far as filenames go everything on the supplied CDROM looks Ok. I haven't got round to uninstall and redo yet but I have asked the distributers for an explaination. If I get a solution I'll post it here

[riklaunim]

Drivers on the CD may be older versions than on the website. I installed from the website and no error messages for QHY5 via ASCOM in PHD or in QGVideo.

[datman]

Hi

I've just done some checking, uninstalled and reinstalled 3 or 4 times. Last time directly from the QHY site. The culprit is the QHY Ascom driver it is registered as a 32 bit program and indeed installs to (X86) which shows it as 32 bit. The message I get is that a 32bit installer has been used to install a 64 bit capable driver.

The error now only occurs when I select Camera/QHY5 in Ascom Dianostics so I'll just live with.

If everything worked I'd be perfect ;-)

[datman]

Hi

Impatience rules. I just spotted the other "error" if you put the camera in a different USB port it has to load the driver once per port. If (as I was) you are too quick running up PHD and the driver is still installing it comes up with the error message. I think windows 7 is too subtle the loading driver message is down on the bottom right so is easy to miss.

I seem to remember other versions of Windows displaying the message in the middle of the screen so you didn't miss it.

All I need now is a cloud free evening OK maybe that's too much to ask for this far away form Xmas