WD will not read from Vantage Pro

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taking over from 10.30g thread, this is now a different issue.

I start 10.31e and the datalogger window pops up but it will NOT read any data.

If I close 10.31e and open Weatherlink or whatever that sw is that came with the VP Pro, it works fine
and reads from COM3 (USB). But WD just will not read and if I close the datalogger popup, then WD still will
not show that any data is coming in off the datalogger.

Somehow some driver or code has been corrupted on WD… I tried to install 10.31e on top of 10.30g
but to no avail… help, my site is down and I am getting alot of traffic at this time of the year.
What a time for this thing to crash.

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if no one has any ideas, please tell me how to completely uninstall and reinstall WD, keeping my settings and registration intact…
geez.

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Maybe try this first and see if anything changes…http://discourse.weather-watch.com/t/10889

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thx Dan… stay dry.

I will try this.

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Already wet, working tonight and it’s raining cats & dogs here at Beale…I will try to check in later and see how you get along…

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may I ask how this works… what does WD do with 2wd.txt?

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One thing is it uses a seperate wdisplay.ini file so you don’t mess with any of your current settings. Keeps everything seperated…and safe…

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ok, thx Dan… this 2nd install works fine in that it immediately read from the VP Pro2 and is running nicely… at least for 2 minutes now :slight_smile:

What’s next???

THX!

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AND: I can get the 2nd install to read from the datalogger archives as well… so WD is working, just not my existing install #1.

HOW to re-install WD in my main directory with all my previous settings??? Clearly there is a corrupt file or registry setting somewhere…

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I look in Control Panel → Station Setup → datalogger setup/info and here is what I see continually coming out…

re starting download, timer
restarting timer
Asking for archived data download
re starting download, timer
restarting timer
Asking for archived data download
re starting download, timer
restarting timer
Asking for archived data download

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I don;t know what I did exactly. But I copied an old wdisplay.ini into c:\windows and reinstalled 10.31e and still I had a problem. But now I went into the com port setup and it was on COM5. I set to COM3, original setting, and now the main c\wdisplay is now running. So the site is back up.
But my confidence in the workaround couldn’t be lower.

So the question remains… how best to reinstall WD completely yet keep your configuration?

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I think the FAQ to move/install WD to a new computer would give you the info to make the reinstall.

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I did look at the move to a new PC faq, in fact, I did just that to this new PC about a month ago.
But that is a wholesale copy of all files and copying registry settings, so I am not too confident that would help.

Since reinstalling WD doesn’t help, the bug lies in files external to the install (maybe wdisplay.ini?) or registry settings.
Since wdisplay.ini is the only file that changed between non working and working, some WD bug must have corrupted the .ini file settings.
Don’t know how… but only conclusion I can come to.

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If your not already I recommend you enable the backup routine in WD. It will copy your files so if something like this happens you have extra copies of the ini and registry files.