Will Signlab 5 Version 7 from 1997 run on Windows 2000 xp I'm having A problem with it, It won't run after it's loaded.
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
i think you got an answer....from what you are seeing....most older sign programs will not run in XP or WIN 2000. iam a diehard user of win98SE for my work hard drive.....no problem with older eqipment or programs ......go back to 98 se...
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
George, I run Signlab5 ver6.3 and ver12 Fine on Win 2000.(Actually, It runs alot more solid then it ever did on 98.) The only Problem I had was I have over 1 gig of ram so Signlab's undos wouldnt work right till I adjusted the swap file size then it worked fine. I have the USB Dongle though so I dont know if that makes a difference in the Sentinal Driver and Signlab trying to find the Dongle.
Posted by Judy Pate (Member # 237) on :
William, I too run SignLab 5.0, Revision 12 with Windows 2000. The later revison DID NOT work well with Windows 2000 however. George, Perhaps you can download a newer revison and it will work for you.I have been wondering if the version of SignLab I have will run with Windows XP too.Has anybody contacted Cadlink about the compatiblity of SignLab and XP? Good Luck, Judy
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
I asked our tech guys. They say all versions of Signlab 5 and up with a HASP dongle should would on XP. They only problem may be that that HASP dongle driver on the CD you have ,may not be XP compatable. You should be able to go to Cadlinks website "cadlink.com" and download the latest HASP device driver that will allow it to work under XP. I am not sure abouit the older Grey Dongles. Also , for XP, once Signlab is installed, go to start/programs/ Signlab and right click on Signlab to get to Properties. In properties you should see a COMPATABILITY TAB. Make sure there is NO checkmark under run in compatabilty mode.
Posted by Frank Droog (Member # 3958) on :
PS. By work, I mean, with the latest hasp device driver, you should not get "error locating security device". There are however some issues it seems in earlier versions where some feature dont work properly under XP. You may want to email tech support for known XP issues with earlier versions of Signlab 5 befor you decide to switch Operating Systems.
Posted by Bill Preston (Member # 1314) on :
Hi George,
Been down a similar road a few months back.
Had SL5 rev. 6.3 and SL e6 both on a P4 2.4 GHz puter with 1 Gig of RAM. Had to reduce lower number in virtual memory to 100. RAM in excess of 512 confused SL5.
Later on, Windows XP decided to crash--no warning--just wouldn't get past the Win logo on startup. Local guru reformatted drive after a full data backup. Reloaded both SL5 and e6. SL5 couldn't find security device. e6 worked. Contacted Cadlink. SL5 off warranty, e6 still on warranty. Never got a response. I don't much care for e6--workspace and tool bars are enough dissimilar to 5 to be a pain.
Took old P2, 450 MHz, 384 RAM, Win 98 first edition with many patches/updates computer out of the closet--still had SL5 loaded, and works fine to this day. Burned old files off the P4 to CD so all files are available.
P4 puter now reserved for flight sim gaming.
[ November 11, 2003, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: Bill Preston ]
Posted by Bob Darnell (Member # 27) on :
Hi George! How have you been?
George was one of my instructors at the George Brown College for Sign Graphics.
Updating the HASP driver as mentioned above was the only thing I had to do to get Siglab 5 working in XP here.
