Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall
Thanks Dennis Saputelli, i tried clean uninstall procedure suggested from Protel. I will test it today and than I will post the results. Dusan __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:PEDA@techservinc.com Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/peda@techservinc.com
Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall
Dusan, Did you check the Anti-virus issue, is there a possibly there's some AV software running that you do not even know about? If you have done the complete clean uninstall, it is one of the few ideas that I can think of. With P99SE people did not generally experience a lot of these types of problems. What format are you using for your file management with P99SE, the .DDB format or the Windows file management? Sincerely, Brad Velander Senior PCB Designer Northern Airborne Technology #14 - 1925 Kirschner Road, Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7. tel (250) 763-2232 ext. 225 fax (250) 762-3374 -Original Message- From: Dusan Mihajlovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:09 AM To: Protel EDA Discussion List Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall I have tryied clean uninstall proposed from Protel but with no success. After I reinstalled Protel 99se SP6 it worked fine for a while, then when tryed opening some of pcb designs it reported the same error message like before: Format '%x' invalid or incompatible with argument. After 10 attempts (opening and closing design) i managed to open it without errors. It's strange to me that on the slower machines it runs perfectrly! Dusan You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:PEDA@techservinc.com Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/peda@techservinc.com
Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall
when tryed opening some of pcb designs it reported the same error message like before: Format '%x' invalid or incompatible with argument. I've seen this problem before, The fix is Click on browse PCB tab Select Libraries Click add/Remove Then click OK on the add/remove library form. That's it!!! Dan -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.2/357 - Release Date: 6/6/2006 You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:PEDA@techservinc.com Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/peda@techservinc.com
Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:30:36 -0700, Daniel Groulx wrote: when tryed opening some of pcb designs it reported the same error message like before: Format '%x' invalid or incompatible with argument. I've seen this problem before, The fix is Click on browse PCB tab Select Libraries Click add/Remove Then click OK on the add/remove library form. That's it!!! This is really interesting information, I'll have to try it the next time I see this error. Since I switched main computers about a year ago I've seen this problem occasionally also, where I never saw it with my old PC. I assumed it was something peculiar about my Protel99SE installation or that I was getting corrupt ini and config files (a known problem that's been discussed here before). My solution has been to copy some older saved config files (which I know do not cause the same error to occur) to the WINNT directory. This fix now makes sense why it works as it copies ini and config files which don't call for the same PCB libraries to be loaded. It appears instead that there is something wrong with one of my PCB libraries or possibly the way Protel is pointing to/referencing them. This is the one last annoying thing about everyday use of Protel that I encounter and if I can fix it reliably I'll be a happy camper! Matt Pobursky Maximum Performance Systems You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:PEDA@techservinc.com Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/peda@techservinc.com
Re: [PEDA] Protel 99se errors! - clean uninstall
you may want to search these archives, this sounds a bit familiar the .bpl file definitely rings a bell are you using Service pack 6 ? SP6 maybe you reinstalled and did not run the service pack ? the first error message i think relates to a file format change somewhere around SP4 or 5 somewhere in these archives you will find a discussion about a 'clean install' which came from protel in that they describe deleting certain files the .bpl 's among them ok found it ! here it is: NOTE #5 ! Version # Protel 99SE/ Service Pack 6: PROBLEM: Is there a specific uninstall procedure for Protel? I have uninstalled and reinstalled using add and/remove programs but Protel is still acting up. SOLUTION: 1) Un-install Service Pack 6 for 99SE 2) Un-install 99SE 3) Delete the Design Explorer 99 SE directory (make sure you have no personal files or libraries stored here before you do this). 4) Delete the files *99SE.* from your Windows or Winnt folder 5) Also delete from the Windows or Winnt folder *.bpl and *.dpl, if they are still remaining. 6) Re-install Protel 99 SE a) If Win 9x then Reboot 7) Re-apply Service Pack 6 a) If Win 9x Then Reboot - Original Message - From: Dennis Saputelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lori Quevedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:09 AM Subject: Re: protel * HTH Dennis Saputelli this below i found while trolling for the clean install procedure, it probably does not relate to your issue but i thought was interesting Thank you very much Ralph, and others You were right about what had happened. I had already found the problem by the time I read your post. I found it using Filemon. It appeared that the Help and support service failed to start at boot as winxp's svchost.exe used %systemroot%\system32 to find the appropriate files and as the windir env var had been set to an actual string %systemroot%, obviously it could never find the directory %systemroot%\system32 because it didn't exist. As for the repair I found a much easier way the one described below. On the desktop you right-click My Computer and select properties, click on the advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button. In the bottom list of system variables you'll find windir, which is listed as having a value of C:\WINDOWS but when you click edit the dialog that proceeds shows the actual value to be %systemroot%! I changed it to the appropriate value, in my case C:\WINDOWS, rebooted and presto, all was good. Alfonso -Original Message- From: Ralph Petzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 11:49 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] P99SE installation On Thursday 05 August 2004 6:09 am, John A. Ross [Design] wrote: -Original Message- From: Alfonso Baz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 August 2004 06:47 To: proteledaforum@techservinc.com Subject: [PEDA] P99SE installation I'm curious if anybody else has noticed the following when installing P99SE SP6 on either WIN2K or WINXP. Recently I upgraded my PC. I noticed after a clean OS install followed by installation of my usual software packages, windows Start-Help and Support didn't work. Also right-clicking My Computer on the desktop and selecting Manage failed to respond. Thanks to XP's system restore, I found the offending software installation. P99SE Alfonso I'll quote the fix from Google Groups: ** Symptoms: Help and Support center won't run Trying to start the Help and Support services results in Error 126 Repairing Windows XP does not solve the problem SFC /SCANNOW results in an RPC server unavailable error Applying the fixes from Doug Knox does not fix the problem. XP Fax support will not install. Try this: At a command prompt, type SET If the value for WINDIR=%systemroot% (and if you have all the above mentioned problems, it WILL be :-) ) you need to apply the following fix: Run REGEDIT Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager \Environment in the right-hand pane, find the value WINDIR. You'll notice it is of type REG_SZ. This is incorrect since it's value (%systemroot%) needs to be expanded to what windows will eventually use (in my case, C:\WINDOWS). What is happening is window is attempting to load the help and support module (and anything else that relies on the %windir% environment variable) by calling it %systemroot%\pathtofile\file.dll instead of c:\windows\pathtofile\file.dll. DELETE the existing windir value. Make a new EXPANDABLE STRING VALUE, call it WINDIR and give it the value %systemroot% This procedure basically recreates the WINDIR value as an expandable string. Reboot your system and watch your help and
