Problems installing the new HM 4.52!!

[Mogge]

Hi

After installation of the new HM 4.52 I get a "Program is corrupt!" during start/self test of the program.

Please help!

Kind regards
Mogens

Take 2: I tried installing it on another PC - no problem. !?!? I tried upgrading and/or uninstalling/installing with the same result.

???? Still needs help

[grantcs]

I had exactly the same problem when I tried to install it onto a Windows XP workstation.

Tried downloading it again and comparing - exactly the same as previously downloaded.

Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled and same problem.

[KS-Soft]

I just checked both link
http://www.ks-soft.net/download/host-mon.exe
http://mirror1.ks-soft.mastak.com/download/host-mon.exe
it works fine on our testing systems...

Have you used one of these links?

Take 2: I tried installing it on another PC - no problem. !?!? I tried upgrading and/or uninstalling/installing with the same result.

Strange... PC1 and PC2 have the same or different hardware (especially I am interesting about processors)?

grantcs,
What processor (CPU) is used in your system?

Regards
Alex

[KS-Soft]

If anyone else has the same problem, what processor is installed on your system?

Regards
Alex

[Mogge]

Hi!

The "wrong" PC has a Intel Pentium 4 with 1.5 GHz processor (standard desktop PC - Acer Veriton 7200)
The ""god" PC has a Intel Centrino 1.6 HGz processor (laptop - Acer TravelMate 803LCi)

I downloaded the HM 4.52 from one of the links on your main webpage and it ok on my laptop so I don't think it the file it self. Maybe you could tell a little about what it's doing after it displays the first introduction windows and before it writes the green "OK" just besides "Self-test..." Maybe that way I can check if everything is "on it's place" on my system.

Regards
Mogens

[KS-Soft]

I have uploaded test program: www.ks-soft.net/download/testcpu.exe
Could you put it into HostMonitor's directory and start it (on both systems)? This command line utility will display a number. Is this number the same on both systems? Or different?

Regards
Alex

[Mogge]

Hi again

On both systems it writes: CRC : 0

Kind Regards
Mogens

[KS-Soft]

Its because you did not put utility into HostMonitor's directory. Or may be hostmon.exe has read-only attribute?

Regards
Alex

[Mogge]

Ups... sorry...

It writes CRC: A42D9F2C on both systems - and the HostMonitor Exe file is not read-only.

Just one information... it's my "monitoring" PC that I'm having trouble with. That means that I'm currently running HM 4.42 on the machine and I've tried upgrading and uninstalling/installing the new version 4.52 in every way that can be done. HM 4.42 is runing perfectly on the machine.

...and I also tried to install HM in C:\Program Files\HostMonitor4 instead of C:\Programmer\HostMonitor4 as we like to have our programs placed in Denmark Same result!

Kind Regards

Mogens

[KS-Soft]

H'm.....
Could you try to download pure exe module (instead of packed into installation module)? Available at www.ks-soft.net/download/test/hostmon.exe
Or another version of this module (that is using old CRC) at www.ks-soft.net/download/test/hm445c.exe

Regards
Alex

[Mogge]

YES!!!!!

hm445c did the trick!


/Mogens

[KS-Soft]

The only explanation I have - different processors give a little different results when they work with floating point type

Anyway, I changed code of the self test. New package available at the same location
http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/downpage.htm

Direct links:
http://www.ks-soft.net/download/host-mon.exe
http://mirror1.ks-soft.mastak.com/download/host-mon.exe

Regards
Alex

[Mogge]

Hi Alex

Thanks - it's working fine now!

About the problems with some processors and floating point types - I have head it before - maybe a visit to Intel.com will give an answer. As I remember it is something about the Pentium 4 processor...

Thanks again!

Regards
Mogens