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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 10-29-2001 08:15 PM

Anyone know what configuration the R2 software wants the PC to be in?
I had a slight meltdown on my laptop (ok win98 crashed and I had to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch) and for the life of me I can't remember what settings to use for memory, drivers, etc. for MS-DOS mode.
Thanks
Jon Bartow

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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 10-30-2001 12:36 AM

Jon When I use the R2 I restart or start my laptop, I hold down the F8 key until a beeping sound heard, this is DOS & it will ask me what prompt....I use the # 5 key, then type in cd\thx (then type) gothx(space) vga wolla,

So to answer your question....DOS !!

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-30-2001 01:03 PM

I always just restart to MS dos and on the second laptop I actually have a dos partition with bootmagic that is reel does

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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 10-30-2001 03:34 PM

The laptop that I have is a "Multi-media" laptop which means that it has more bells and whistles than I really need. Unfortunately in order to operate the foolish thing and not have major hardware/driver/software problems I have to keep the original manufacturer's configuration (i.e. no extra partitions or dual boot, which is what I would really like to do).
So, under Windows 98SE if you do the "F8/Command promt only" thing at startup the R2 software doesn't act very happy on my computer. [has problems with allocating enough memory, problems loading fonts, etc]
I finnally remembered last night what I had to do to make it work.
By creating a new shortcut in Windows to a MS-DOS program with the following settings under the "program" tab:
Command Line: C:\Windows\Command.com
Working: C:\Windows
Close on Exit Checked
Under the "Advanced" button
MS-DOS mode checked
Config.sys:
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
Autoexec.bat:
SET TMP=c:\windows\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\windows\TEMP
SET PROMPT=$p$g
SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
GOTHX VGA
WIN

With these settings it allows me to go to the R2 program from within Windows and when I'm done it askes me If I want to return to Windows or not.
If I remember correctly it was the NOEMS memory command in the config.sys that made the difference between the software misbehaving and behaving well.
If anyone wants to do this here's a shortcut: in the Windows directory there is a shortcut titled "MS-DOS Mode for Games". Make a copy of this shortcut and put it wherever you like then add the GOTHX and the WIN commands to the end of the autoexec.bat file in the shartcut properties. Then you can rename the shortcut whatever you like (THXR2 or whatever)

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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 10-30-2001 10:40 PM

Gordon, What R2 program version are you using 3.52 or 3.60 ?? Stuart since me the new 3.60 very nice program, has Ex test, several processors, except the program would lock up after 10-seconds, we tried uninstalling , installing, I had our computer expert to try, but still did not work, so we went back to 3.52 to re-certify the theatres here in Japan......but to the problem at the beginning of this thead, if I use MS-Dos, my laptop will locked up on the RT-60 test....I have to start my laptop in DOS...no problems.....the programs I have problems with is the Dolby Dras-10, & the SDDS 3.0, both will lock up the laptop at the time I need it the most....this is a new laptop, ther other three laptop did the same with these programs.....do you have any problems like this with yours ?? or is it just me !!! Thanks

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Ray Derrick
Master Film Handler

Posts: 310
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 10-31-2001 01:05 AM

Don, try grabbing a copy of DRAS for Windows. It runs under Windows rather than DOS and our service techs have had zero problems running it with Windows 98SE. It is included on the Dolby Cinema Products Resouces CD in the "Current Products/Dolby Digital Readers/Reader Alignment Software" directory.

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Ray Derrick
President
Panalogic Corporation Pty Limited
44 Carrington Road
Castle Hill NSW 2154
Australia
Phone: 61 (0)2 9894 6655
Fax: 61 (0)2 9894 6935

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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 10-31-2001 01:27 AM

Ray, will this work with the DA-20 & CP-500, I thought the window Dras was for the CP-650 only, I will be doing a 10-screen install using CP-650 in mid November in Japan, so I can try with that unit.. I haven't tried it yet with the DA-20 & CP-500, but I will give it a try next week when I to go Guam to do a service call, I will be almost in your neck of the woods....thanks for the reply...

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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 10-31-2001 02:39 AM

WinDras works with DA20, CP500 and CP650

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Ray Derrick
Master Film Handler

Posts: 310
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 10-31-2001 06:11 AM

Ditto, Pete Naples

Don, the WinDras interface looks pretty much the same as Dras-10, it just works a lot better.

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Ray Derrick
President
Panalogic Corporation Pty Limited
44 Carrington Road
Castle Hill NSW 2154 Australia
Phone: 61 (0)2 9894 6655 Fax: 61 (0)2 9894 6935

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-31-2001 10:10 AM

Don I am useing V3.60 R2 software and I use PCDos7

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-01-2001 11:12 PM

I am also running 3.60 and it has been rock solid on my old Toshiba 435. running Win 98 SE and I just restart in dos mode and away it goes. Never a problem, just used it on two auditoriums today and as Brad and Joe both know...its sleeping in bed next to me tonight.
Mark @ GTS

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Stefan Scholz
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 223
From: Schoenberg, Germany
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 11-03-2001 06:46 AM

Power Book G4, Virtual PC 4.0 running PC DOS 7.0 makes it work very nice.
Before that I was forced to keep my 1994 Dell Latitude DOS 6, (450 Meg HD, 486/75 Mhz) Win 3.11 laptop alive to run the THX crash free. The newer Win 98 Dell pentium 500 MHZ always made problems.
Maybe you can run Virtual PC for Windows to get a stable, true PC DOS computer on your multimedia laptop, with Mac it works great.

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Francis Casey
Film Handler

Posts: 44
From: Saint John, NB, Canada
Registered: Jun 2000

posted 11-03-2001 08:44 AM

MAYBE if we all cried loud enough , we could convince THX to produce a windows version of the R2 software--after all it only sends control signas to the R2 and displays the data the R2 sends back ! How hard could it be for a good windows programer to write ! This is 2001 and as much as some people dislike windows ( myself sometimes too ) windows is here to stay . So PLEASE THX guys give us a windows version of the R2 software .Anyone else care to plead with me ? Many voices make things happen !
Francis

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-03-2001 09:58 AM

Yes but then it wouldn't run on the trusty HP200Lx palmtop

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Francis Casey
Film Handler

Posts: 44
From: Saint John, NB, Canada
Registered: Jun 2000

posted 11-04-2001 09:53 AM

Gordon--point noted but since you already have it running on your HP200lx i think the point is moot .
Francis

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