Dear Friends,

I am a novice to this awesome hobby. I recently purchased an ETX-
105 and Meade DSI-I at Chicago and then quickly relocated to
overseas. I am a relatively tech savvy person, but I am
unfortunately totally unsuccessful in getting the DSI to work for me.

I am trying with 2 computers, a PC and a laptop. Both machines have
USB 2.0. I am using the standard USB cable that came with DSI. I
have tried everything possible, from updating the Autostar Suite
from Meade Website, to updating Microsoft's DirectX. I tried using
LPI as well as DSI on the Autostar Suite, tried imaging terrestrial
to lunar to deep sky. I tried every possible combination on the
Autostar software settings.

Although my computers detect "Meade DSI" device, there is absolutely
no image reception...! All I get is complete dark screen or
complete bright screen and in between the settings (gain, offset,
etc.) a grainy grey screen. The screen image does not even change
when I close the telescope with its lid...!

Finally I attempted buying an externally powered USB 2.0 hub. But
now when I connect the CCD to the hub the outcome is worse; I get a
unrecognized-device error message...! There doesn't seem to be an
easy way to re-install the CCD's drivers once I hook up the CCD to
the externally powered hub. The powered hub seems to be ok. I can
connect a mouse to it and it works.

I am now totally clueless. Can I kindly get some valuable feedback
from this group to try and succeed with my pursuit.

Thank you very much.

Hemanth