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Author Topic: Help with DRAS and Load500 Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-28-2001 02:18 PM                        Hello everyone! I need your help. I'm unable to use Load500 and DRAS10 with my Dolby CP500. Previously I used "Cp500 terminal" from Bell theaters without problems. Now I've lost the program (!) and I'm unable to find the url where I've downloaded it. So I've tried to use Load500 and, to check DD soundhead, DRAS10. I've tried programs under MS-DOS and Windows 98. DRAS10 says that it is unable to find the dolby unit from query and Load500 stays in "timeout". Under windows I've set my Com1 port to many speed rate, from 4800 to 115200 without results. Under MSDOS the MODE command can set the port up to 9600 and no more. With Hyperterminal and port set to 9600 I receive some kind of data but not readable. My notebook is a Texas Instruments 367T and my CP500 has 1.61 software release. The Load500 and DRAS10 were found here on film-tech. Can anyone help me? A last thing: I entered the "UART selector and explored the settings but I realize that there wasn't the "Cancel"... What is the correct setting? Thanks to all Bye Antonio Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2001 02:34 PM                     Check that you are talking to the correct com port you have to put a switch after the exe with the cm number. Also run Load500 and Dras from Dos not a windows session Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2001 03:41 PM                     Antonio, I am curious if any of your 500's have lost the settings for eq and such. There are problems with Software versions 1.5 and later. Mark @ GTS Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-28-2001 06:34 PM                        Gordon, Load500 seems to don't have any prompt paramenter. Dras10 has many parameters, I will try tomorrow. Mark, 1.61 was installed 1 year ago. Never had problems. Bye Antonio Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2001 07:19 PM                     Try restarting your computor in MSDOS mode Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2001 08:07 PM                     I have had a lot of trouble running DRAS on my laptop. If Windows loads and you try to escape to the DOS prompt, DRAS won't be able to find the COM-1 port. If I hit F-8 before Windows loads and then run DRAS by typing from the command line then it'll work. Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-01-2001 07:39 AM                        I'm already trying in real MS-DOS mode (F8 at startup)... Today I've tried to change the Com address and I've found that with other addresses than BIOS default DRAS10 doesn't see the com1 port... Antonio Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-01-2001 09:25 AM                     Have you tried to run it with the shutdown to restart in MSDOS mode? Christos Mitsakis Expert Film Handler Posts: 242 From: Ag.Paraskevi, ATHENS, GREECE Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-01-2001 12:19 PM                     Antonio, For dowloading CP500 Terminal again,the Bell Theatre url is http://www.bell-theatre.com Good Luck Christos Jon Bartow Master Film Handler Posts: 287 From: Massachusetts Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-04-2001 08:17 PM                     I run both DRAS10 and load500 in the Windows enviroment. I've never had any problems with either. I've also never had any of my theaters experience any problems with the later versions of the cp500 sector file. The only program that I do use that I've had any problems with under windows is the R2 software. If under Windows the Real Time analyzer screen will lock up every 20-30 seconds. (BTW, I'm using a Compaq laptop with a AMD K6-2 380mhz) Antonio Marcheselli Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1260 From: Florence, Italy Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-05-2001 06:06 AM                        Hi I can use Cp500 terminal from Bell theater without problems (for download, I didn't try upload). However I'm unable to use Load500 or Dras10. Just a question: are my serial cable correct? It is a "pin to pin" serial cable, not null modem. I have an Acer/TI 367T P200. Bye Antonio System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 12-04-2005 08:20 AM                 It has been 1735 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Alex Batyaev Film Handler Posts: 4 From: Lvov, Ukraine, UA Registered: Sep 2004 posted 12-04-2005 08:20 AM                        Hello, I have dowloaded "CP500 Terminal v1.0" from http://www.bell-theatre.com. It is impossible to use all of its functions without registration key. I have wrote the request for the registration key to the address stated on the site; however there was no answer. Could anyone advise how to register? I have also the "load500.exe", but its functionality is too rich for my purposes; I find safer to use more simple yet functional enough "CP500 Terminal".  |  IP: Logged Alan Lyman Film Handler Posts: 13 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-07-2005 09:30 AM                     the new load500v2,works fine under windows xp. you should upgrade to ver.1.65 or 1.65ex,to eliminate occacional masterreset of the cp500.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 12-08-2005 07:27 AM                        Be careful what you do with DRAS 10. Dozens (hundreds) of technicians try to use it instead of a scope for optical alignment. As has benn stated many times; that just won't work. It's OK with me, though, since I go back behind them and sort out the mistakes. Louis  |  IP: Logged

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