Are you using any kind of COM port splitter ? You must use such a thing in order to have more than 1 application with GPS run at the same time.
If you have the GPS icon, under start-settings-system , please check your hardware and software port there.
Point Reperion to the software port. If that doesn't work, try pointing it to the hardware port of the GPS connection.
please tell us your findings
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