Bob and Ron,

It is said that when Cortez landed in Mexico he burned all of his boats.  At some point we have to go to an operating system and a logging program that is supported.  At least for me, I would rather struggle through the weekend than kick the can down the road and go back to XP. 

You all are doing a fantastic job of all of this.  As we used to say when I was an IT guy with BCBS - there is no way out but through.

Keep up the good work and let's not go back unless we really really have to.  As far as the audio stuff goes, at least for 6m I will have my external voice keyer as a back up.  Works just like WL - push a button!

Johnny

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Lear
>Sent: Aug 17, 2017 5:59 PM
>To: FourLanders Contest Team
>Subject: [Fourlanders] today's (8/17) computer update
>
>Good news that now three days of stable operation, 6 hours each. Today
>will be a longer period as they'll probably get to stay on tonight.
>
>Came out about 11AM and went through each of the 5 computers with Ron's
>check-list of Control Panel changes after turning them on but not
>running WL. Shut down and restarted each and went back through the list
>to make sure things 'took'. A few items didn't on a couple of the
>computers, so I changed them again and shut down and restarted. Now all
>five do have the setting changed per Ron's list, turning off all the
>'sleepy time' possibilities.
>
>Going through and starting WL on each computer. All but 2m (below) came
>up with my WL Test2 file, would call properly live and recorded and CAT
>and CW. Have periodically tested them today like yesterday with Q's
>entered, changing ops, calling, making sure no HOT mic occurs, etc. All
>is well there.
>
>I do still get an error on the server (which has no sound card or audio
>setup attempted) saying 'error setting up sound device names, vista
>style'. The others all showed this until audio was set up and working
>properly.
>
>What happened on 2m computer: When it was restarted second time after
>making the Power changes, it came up "unable to start". It asked
>whether I wanted to Restore or attempt repair. I chose attempt repair.
>It went in to repair mode I guess and kept showing a progress tracer
>line going over and over in a window saying "attempting to do startup
>repair". Kept going on, I tried the CANCEL button but it came back and
>said it couldn't cancel this operation. Eventually it apparently
>finished (about 10 mins) and said "REPAIR cannot repair this computer
>automatically". It had a finish box and I chose it and the computer
>immediately shut down. I restarted and everything came up normal and
>I've been testing it with all the others networked since that happened
>about noon time today. Another WTF?
>
>Ron and I had talked last night and decided that if we continued to have
>problems with these computers we could just use the XP computers since
>we don't have any newer radios that require the latest version of WL to
>use them. Of course, that is still our backup plan if things go sour
>with the new computers but three days positive results with nightly
>shutdowns is finally starting to be encouraging. We aren't planning to
>take the XP computers to the mountain for backup and will make a final
>decision in the next couple of weeks after we continue testing. None
>this weekend because of the hamfest and eclipse, but next week I'll be
>back on them again.
>
>73, Bob
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