[s-cars] ETKA USA under WIN2000

[Chris Covington]

Hey guys,

I was the one who invented those directions, and they've worked on all
the machines I've installed ETKA / EPC5 on, and everyone I've passed them
on to except for Igor.  I don't think that abridged version will work
below without any of the EPC_PROG.NT4 executables / DLLs (IE, only
copying LEXHDL5.DLL after installation, and that's it).
How is the below version any different than the previous (mine)?
My directions were to copy that LEXHDL5.DLL from the .W95 directory also.
Did you do anything else differently?  Or did you bypass entirely the .NT4
copying?

If all you're doing is installing as normal, then copying LEXHDL5.DLL,
ETKA should've just worked out of the box without that step because the
true problem with ETKA on W2K is that the installer thinks W2K is Win 9x,
so it installs the .W95 executables, DLLs, etc. when in reality W2K is
NT-based and needs the NT executables and DLLs (except for that
LEXHDL5.DLL), and won't work properly with Win 9x ones.  That LEXHDL5.DLL
should already be there after a W2K install, except that when you copy the
.NT4 directory it will be overwritten and thus needs to be copied again
from .W95 (I should've written 'copy all files except .INI and LEXHDL5.DLL
from .NT4' to clarify).  So I'm at a loss as to how that worked.

Was your system upgraded to W2K and not a clean installation?  That might
have something to do with it.

Chris
'91 200q20v

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, KBATTPO wrote:

> James, and Kirby,
> thank you very much, gentlemen! Hard to believe but this has been my
> third attmept at installing the damn thing over whin2000 over the last
> 1.5 years, and finally I have gotten it nailed!
>
> So in my instructioons below, the whole paragraph for Win2000 should be
> replaced with just one line:
> ============
> > Install it as normal, but then you have to go to the EPC_PROG.W95 directory
> > on the CD, and copy the following files from the cd to the EPC_PROG
> > directory on the hard drive:
> > LEXHDL5.DLL
> ============
>
> BTW, James, LEXHDLL5.DLL is the same so it is not needed.
>
> You might want to save this for future refetrence, folks,
>
> Once again, thanks much!
>
> Igor
>
>
> "James Murray (LMC)" wrote:
> >
> > Hi Igor,
> >
> > Try this, it worked for me under Windows NT and Windows 2000.
> >
> > Install it as normal, but then you have to go to the EPC_PROG.W95 directory
> > on the CD, and copy the following files from the cd to the EPC_PROG
> > directory on the hard drive:
> > LEXHDL5.DLL
> > LEXHDLL5.DLL
> >
> > Then answer yes to overlay the original file on both copies. Good luck.
> >
> > Cheers, /James.
> >
> >         -----Original Message-----
> >         From:   KBATTPO [SMTP:igor at s-cars.org]
> >         Sent:   April 22, 2002 12:12 AM
> >         To:     Audi S-list
> >         Subject:        [s-cars] ETKA USA under WIN2000
> >
> >         Folks,
> >         sorry to bring up this ancient topik but I have just installed
> > WIN2000
> >         and now am having trouble installing ETKA USA (full DB on hard
> > drive)
> >         over it. Here's what I've done per the two instructions below:
> >         ==========
> >         Per Dave Eaton:
> >         The nt4 installation will not work for w2k, as the program thinks
> >         that it is installing w95.
> >         1) install normally onto Win2000.
> >         2) copy over the et_prog.nt4 directory to your c:\et_prog directory.
> >         do *not* copy the .ini files!
> >         3) copy the lexhdl5.dll file from the et_prog.w95 directory to the
> >         c:\et_prog directory
> >         ==========
> >
> >         Per http://album.dhs.org:8080/album.html
> >         Install as usual. Copy everything except the *.INI files from the
> > CD's
> >         et_prog.nt4 directory to the hard drive's et_prog, overwriting as
> > you
> >         go. Copy lexhdl5.dll from the et_prog.w95 directory on the CD to the
> >
> >         et_prog directory on the drive where you installed the Family Album.
> >
> >         (Yes, overwrite the file.)
> >         ===========
> >
> >         I am still getting Hardlock not present. Worked well under WIN98SE
> >         (although with DB on CD).
> >
> >         Please help. Thx much.
> >
> >         Igor
> >
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