Back online after 6 momth's

[vdb]

Our computer died about 6 month's ago, finally took the time to rebuild a system, shipped it to Olly's place, he hooked up everything, and the next night we had our test run.

I was prepared for all kind of issues, ranging from defective HW to all kinds of software issues, none of that !?!?

it turned out quite nice ... not really meant to be processed let alone posted, here is 35x5min, QSI 683, ODK10, Mesu 200;

M81 by Yves, on Flickr

[Barry-Wilson]

Looking good Yves - & very impressed with a new pc and migration of SW and no issues   You must pass on your secret IT skills!

[vdb]

Thanks, it was a real challenge, old setup ran W7, new build system W10, disk was about to die ...

Installed W10 with new ASCOM platform, 6.3 (old one was 6), new sitech software, dozens of releases newer (was afraid FW in mount would not work).

Bought PCMover from Landesk, it migrated all the files it could read from the old disk, some software was not lic. anymore like ACP, other the settings did not migrate (like new Sitech soft versus old).

Anyway just reinstalled ACP, re configured Sitech ... and it all worked in arrival! (could not test at home don't have a Mesu at home)

Miracles do happen, ACP - MaximDL - Focusmax - Sitech did work on W10 ... and all the serial converters as well, that would have been a nightmare (W10 broke several serial converter HW)

/Yves

 

 

[ollypenrice]

9 hours ago, vdb said:

Thanks, it was a real challenge, old setup ran W7, new build system W10, disk was about to die ...

Installed W10 with new ASCOM platform, 6.3 (old one was 6), new sitech software, dozens of releases newer (was afraid FW in mount would not work).

Bought PCMover from Landesk, it migrated all the files it could read from the old disk, some software was not lic. anymore like ACP, other the settings did not migrate (like new Sitech soft versus old).

Anyway just reinstalled ACP, re configured Sitech ... and it all worked in arrival! (could not test at home don't have a Mesu at home)

Miracles do happen, ACP - MaximDL - Focusmax - Sitech did work on W10 ... and all the serial converters as well, that would have been a nightmare (W10 broke several serial converter HW)

/Yves

 

 

Yes, this was a fantastically successful re-installation. The image is good as well!

Olly

[Allinthehead]

Looking good. Nice just to get something like that working never mind a decent result.

[PatrickGilliland]

New PC and a super image - that is a productive!  (Note to self, finish building PC that has been next to me for 5 months!)  Some lovely detail coming through there.

Paddy