Compaq Visual fortran Installation

[swellerhoo]

I am sure this is covered somethere, but I cannot find it. My company has a network license of CVF 6.6A from 2002 and out IT department told me to install it. When I do, the install informs me that the Serial ID is bad. From what I could gather from other message groups, Intel is now the owners of VF. Do I need to tell my IT guy that is what we need to buy or is there a way to get support to get our CVF working on a new installation? Any help would be appreciated.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel does not own the Compaq Visual Fortran product - that is owned by Hewlett-Packard. We do own Intel Visual Fortran which is the successor product to CVF. Unfortunately, nobodu is left at HP that knows anything about CVF.

Send me an email at steve.lionel at intel.com with the serial number you are using and I may be able to figure out what is wrong. (DO NOT POST THE SERIAL NUMBER HERE!) Note that for network licenses you will need to install the network license server software provided on the CVF CD and the license file itself (that I cannot help you with).

[John_Paine]

Quoting - swellerhoo

I am sure this is covered somethere, but I cannot find it. My company has a network license of CVF 6.6A from 2002 and out IT department told me to install it. When I do, the install informs me that the Serial ID is bad. From what I could gather from other message groups, Intel is now the owners of VF. Do I need to tell my IT guy that is what we need to buy or is there a way to get support to get our CVF working on a new installation? Any help would be appreciated.

Having just been through getting CVF6.6c installed on my new Vista64 laptop and not found much of help on the internet on how to do it, I thought that I'd share the process that got it working form me (fingers crossed that it stays that way).

First off, my CVF6.0 install just would not work no matter how I tweaked permissions. It just started up and vanished without any errors or any installation. Thefix I found for this was to boot the laptop into safe mode with networking (using the F8 key when rebooting) and then ran the setupx86.exe as administrator and the process installed CVF6.0 just fine. Note that if I ran the install from the setup filesI had copied tomy hard disk, the serial number was rejected. It seems that you have to run the setup program from the original CD in order for the serial number to be accepted.

Next I rebooted the laptop into normal model and ran Developer Studio to make sure that the installhad actually worked ok. At this stage theOS reported that DevStudio had stopped working and Ichanged the Compatability settingsto run in Windows98/ME mode and that seemed to fix the problem and DevStudio started up ok.

Then I ran the CVF6.0 to 6.5 upgrade CD by navigating to the upgrade exe in the X86 folder on the CD and running it as Administrator. Once again I then tested the upgraded install and it still seemed to work ok.

Finally I ran the CVF 6.5 to 6.6c upgrade and DevStudio continued to work.

I have to admit that I may have missed a couple of permission tweaks, but I'm pretty tired as I went through a lot of iterations andcontortions to get to this stage (including reinstalling the OS from the factory image as I was a bit concerned that I'd madeso many install attempts and permission changes that Ifelt that a clean install of the OS would be safer).

There was a message about a missing hh.exe in the original testrun for6.0 (or 6.5), but the replacement one that the system found in c:windows seemed to work ok. I also turned off the User Account Control and made sure that I had full control permissions for the C drive when running the setup and upgrade installs.

Mynext problem is to get Data Tips working in my VB6 install as that seems to have stopped working again, but I'm glad that I at least have both CVF and VB6 working, so now I can get down to doing some meaningful work again.