Originally Posted by
melyaro
Did you ever figure out what to do? I’ve been using my 2144/2170 for years then took a break from it for a few years and just started it up again today. Same error messages and I’m using the same old WinXP laptop that I always used to transfer files so neither the machine or computer have been updated or changed in any way since both are now unsupported and can’t be updated. I have never had that error message before today.
Hi, melyaro! Sorry for the late response. I got some advice from the
Pfaff 1471-2170 FB group. Basically, the USB PC cards seem to be somewhat unreliable, and may suddenly stop working after a few years.
I ended up using a Magic Box converter to write to the Pfaff cards, and then plug them into my machine. So far it seems to be working well on my Windows 11 machine, though I did have to find some creative workarounds when I ran into some software issues.