Cause it wasn't designed with that purpose, using the 'braindead' 0xfe protocol will give you more control over the display then plain ascii ever could, thats why.

We currently don't offer SPI so that would leave you with a parallel display like the mop-240128 which sells for about $89

Try closing lcdstudio (make sure the lcdstudio.exe does not show anymore in the task manager) copy on this original settings file and try again, does the list populate then?

Well not a proper solution but something i'd like you to try, when you go to the services panel (right click my computer, manage) and restart the drivercore service does the display come to life again?

MBM is not something we can give you support on, given development on MBM stopped early 2004 i'm quite impressed it kept going as long as it did. I See LCDC has a plugin for speedfan, perhaps thats worth a shot?

If you have a steady hand you can also move the zero ohm resistors on the back of the module from rs232 to ttl.

I suspect the Arduino is operating on TTL levels

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Don't worry about your GX, this product is in our line of inteligent displays meant for industrial customers wanting to easily add a userinterface to their embedded applications. While the GX is aimed for the PC monitoring/htpc crowd, we might do a color GX in the future but thats definitly not anyt...

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So is windows 7 Just in case you found the beta drivers somewhere, the RTM Drivers you can find here After that just install the latest software pack and you should be good to go.

String descriptors are rarely used for anything other then 'human' indentification of the product, so i'm leaning towards CE not picking up on the new pid/vid combination. Did you do the changes for the different pid/vid combination in the inf before you installed the driver? If you have regedit on ...

ftdibus is the busdriver in 'regular' windows that it uses to enumerate the virtual comports. by the looks of it windows CE doesn't seem to need this. Lets get the most basic configuration going first, using the standard driver and ftdi's factory default vid/pid, Can you download mprog from the ftdi...

We use a stock FT232R on those so I see no reason why the standard drivers wouldn't work (Given that there is a USB Host controller on your embedded device). Although its not a scenario we have tested in house it doesn't look like a big problem, if you run into any specific issues we'd be more then ...

Splash screen?