Re: [foxboro] Moving XP box from 7.0 to 8.x

Ali,
        This is excellent information and could well be the root of our 
problem.  We had read that FoxAPI and the AIM* package installation 
would generate committed installation errors and needed to be installed 
outside the commit process but there was no mention that it would lock 
up the AW in a perpetual reboot situation.  It appears, maybe, that 
those packages should never be assigned to an 8.x AW in SysDef, in order 
to avoid this situation.
        We have received some other suggestions, as well, off the list, that 
have to do with the Allied Telesys fiber NIC installation.  We will 
attempt the installation again tomorrow and will let the list know what 
works.  Again, Ali, thanks for your willingness to share your 
experiences with all of us.  It is this kind of information that can't 
be obtained by contacting Foxboro alone.  The combined sharing, on a 
global basis, of our experiences, makes this list extremely 
helpful/valuable.

Cheers,
Tom VandeWater

Ali Ahmed wrote:
> We had faced the same problem with Win XP based version 8.0 software. This 
> problem normally occurs if do not install FoxAPI from a separate CD (came 
> with your system)  at the end of the normal installation. To fix this 
> problem we restored Windows XP to a pre I/A install checkpoint and then 
> re-installed I/A ver 8.0 software. After completion of normal Day0 
> installation we installed FoxAPI and then rebooted. This solved our problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ali Ahmed Zahidi
> Pakistan Refinery Ltd.
> Karachi, Pakistan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>From: <tom.vandewater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: [foxboro] Moving XP box from 7.0 to 8.x
>>Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:40:29 -0500
>>
>>We've been glad to hear that several users have already implemented the
>>ATS at Ver.8.1 to integrate their Nodebus/CBLAN with the MESH network.
>>We are attempting to do the same but have run into a few roadblocks and
>>questions.  Any help is appreciated from knowledgeable Foxboro folks or
>>Users that know the answers.
>>
>>1. We have received the Ver8.0B day0 software and Ver.8.1 upgrade.  We
>>used a Dell box that we bought for use as a Ver.7.1 AWXP and did the
>>following:
>>      A: Used the Dell CD Restore Disk that came with the original
>>AWXP PC from Dell/Foxboro to wipe out the old Ver.7.x software that we
>>had previously loaded.
>>      B: Renamed the PC Computer name to our Ver.8.x SysDef configured
>>name, (30AW01)
>>      C: Rebooted and placed the Ver.8.0B Day0 CDROM in the CD drive
>>and ran setup.exe
>>      D: When prompted, installed the Committ Disk that we created
> 
>>from SysDef by using the Ver8.0 Media distribution disk 10091
> 
>>      E: After successfully loading the commit disk the PC requests a
>>reboot.  When the PC reboots it tries to load the Foxboro applications
>>and before it completes that function the PC shutsdown and reboots on
>>its own.  This is a continual reboot cycle.  We read about the
>>GPS/timestrobe continual reboot and have insured that our Ver.2.7 SysDef
>>configuration doesn't request these functions, so were pretty sure that
>>isn't the culprit.  We do still have the Version 7.0 prescribed 3-Com
>>NIC installed at this time but had similar results when we tried to use
>>the two Allied Telesysn fiber NIC's that we will need to connect the new
>>Ver.8.1 AWXP to the Mesh switches.  We aren't sure if this is a NIC
>>problem or a problem with Foxboro specific configuration that is on the
>>BASE XP Restore Disk that came with our Ver7.x system.
>>      Any help will be appreciated.
>>Cheers,
>>Tom VandeWater
>>=20
>>=20
>>
>>
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