FW: upgrading AVTS software

["Juan A. Rivera" <juan@gesn.com>]

Please Note : This is to amend my last PS statement since I found out the
hard way.

Once you tell the system that you are done with audit mode and shut down
instead of audit reboot.... YOU ARE TOAST...
There is no easy way to do anything else with that drive other than entering
license numbers and making it a user machine so Jeff do not use the shut
down option at all.  The prior description is true for Win 98 Gold but not
for Second Edition.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
> Juan A. Rivera
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 11:27 AM
> To: Jeff Hintz; 'Ken Clark'
> Cc: Support Team (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: upgrading AVTS software
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> All 100 units for El Paso County , Colorado was shipped with Windows 98 CD
> ROM.  Al necessary drivers for hardware, i.e.., Monitor ,Touch, And
> Ethernet), are placed in a folder on the C: drive.
>
> But, what it sounds like is that if you remove 1.1.3 from units
> but not the
> shared files. Then install MDAC, followed by installing latest
> AVTSIS, that
> should do it for at least the ones out in EL Paso County. Do you agree?
>
> The reason we needed to install 1.1.3 was because that was the
> only version
> we had a Famous name election to test hardware with.
>
> If we can get 3.X Install with a famous name or any test election
> for me to
> include on the master Hard Drive then that is what we will use.
> Again it may
> be a good idea for you to test the install before we commit it to
> hard disk
> master for production.
>
> PS. The keyboard sequence to by-pass license setup is "Ctrl,
> Shift, F3", all
> at the same time. Then agree to license, then it will boot up normal with
> two windows . One a text file that you can close after reading,
> another as a
> shutdown audit screen.  Leave this one open and do what you need to do on
> the system. if you need to reboot to check out your changes or
> setup, select
> (on the Audit window) an audit reboot. You will probably not have to enter
> the keyboard sequence again. Then when you are completely done select the
> shutdown option on the Audit window. After this, the next time
> you power up
> the system, it will ask you to put in the license number. If you make a
> mistake just enter keyboard sequence again to go back into audit.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-support@gesn.com [mailto:owner-support@gesn.com]On Behalf Of
> > Jeff Hintz
> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 10:45 AM
> > To: 'Ken Clark'
> > Cc: Support Team (E-mail)
> > Subject: RE: upgrading AVTS software
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately, I do not have the disks to be able to fdisk the
> > hard drive and reinstall Win98 and the other drivers for the
> > touch screen.  However, with the machines out in El Paso,
> > Colorado, they had installed on them Win98 and Version 1.1.  I
> > uninstalled Version 1.1 and all shared files, then loaded MDAC
> > and AVTSIS and when I ran Ballot Station, it gave me a Fatal
> > Error.  When I looked up the error, it said that some DAO file
> > was missing.  That is when I installed Version 1.1 again, and
> > uninstalled again, but did not uninstall shared files.  Then ran
> > Ballot Station and it worked.  If someone gives me the disks, I
> > would be glad to help with the testing of the install package.
> > Since this is one of the things that I did at I-Mark.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Ken Clark [SMTP:ken@gesn.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, July 26, 1999 10:27 AM
> > To:	Support Team (E-mail)
> > Subject:	RE: upgrading AVTS software
> >
> > > Also, we need to find out which files are missing from the AVTSIS
> > > install, so we do not have to install Version 1.1 to get those
> > > missing files.
> >
> > What are the symptoms if you:
> >
> > (0)	fdisk the hard drive
> > (1)	install Win98 (or 95 for that matter)
> > (2)	install MDAC
> > (3)	install AVTSIS
> > (4)	run Ballot Station or whatever
> >
> > Ken
> >