All,
Our ISODAT has crash, giving an error of "The System > couldn`t
find any scanable hardware part. Check the entries of X/Y-Hardware in the
scanmaker section".  This happened earlier year and there was alot of discussion, but seems like no absolute resolution.  There is communication between the valves, source, magnet etc, but the cups are maxed and in says ÏNVALID.  Connections are fine, rebooted many times, tried Giles suggestion of reactivating "Re-register OCX".  has anyone figured out this bug or is yet another reinstall the only option?
Greg

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Subject: ISODAT crash

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> All,
>    Our ISODAT has done its annual crash, giving an error of "The System
> couldn`t
> find any scanable hardware part. Check the entries of X/Y-Hardware in the
> scanmaker section".  This happened the same time last year, and I noticed
> from
> posts that it has also coincidentally happened during the same time to
> others. 
> Thermos Christmas present?  The computer is communicating with the IRMS
> because
> I can turn on the source, open peripheral valves, do peak centers, but its
> dead
> to acquisition and instrument control functions.   The default seems to be
> reinstall, but I tend to lose custom interfaces when we do that...has anyone
> determined the root cause?
> 
> Greg
>