You need to check with your local Foxboro / Invensys rep to get the information on what are your best options. Normally Foxboro will look at your present installation and give you a plan to migrate that should ensure that you do not have any surprises when the actual shutdown happens. Surprises that cause down-time are very expensive. Your CP's running V3.02.1 means that your are below Y2K software. If you go to the latest IA software with support for CP10 and P92 you will have to reboot your CP10's. You will likely need to eeprom upgrade your CP10's and FBM's and this could result in some failures. Past entries at this (freelist) site indicate that eerprom burn on older modules presents a very high risk for module failure. You need a plan for replacement of modules. If you had any programs that ran under Venix, such as the old report writer, they will not run under WinXP so you could need to purchase additional software. If you made some custom Venix programs to meet specific requirement of your plant, these programs will not run under WinXP and you could be looking at a lot of time and perhaps purchase of a C compiler to get those programs running under WinXP. The old Historian does not run under WinXP so you might have to add an AIM*Historian. Terry ________________________________ De: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx de la part de nasrin kamali Date: dim. 2007-07-22 03:05 À: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : [foxboro] Upgrade PW(VENIX) Hi to all! We have to migrate from our old I/A series DCS Foxboro system with: 3 CP's(CP10), PW (over VENIX operating system, I/A series 3.0.2.1 software and Nodebus communication bus) and legacy FBM's (FBM01(6 modules), FBM03(7 modules), FBM04(14 modules), FBM09(19 module ) and FBM12 (1 module)). Our company determines to upgrade this system workstation to a windows based system (P92 supported by windows). My question is: can we upgrade only workstation system to P92 and our software to version 7 or higher without upgrade CPs and FBMs and our Nodebus communication bus? --------------------------------- Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave -- No attachments (even text) are allowed -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave