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I'm trying to program my VHF mt2000. Everytime I try & read the radio I get one of 2 error messages. The first one is "bad checksum" the other something like this--"not ACKed or NACked". This radio programs fine at my local shop, they are using an old 286 running dos to program it. I'm using an older Compaq pentium 733mhz running windows 98se. I've also tried it on a pentium 2 old IBM laptop running Windows 95 and get a different error on that pc ("busy line error message"). The cable is new, my rib works with all my other radios so I'm not sure what's wrong??

Charles
KI4DCR
Raleigh, NC

You have already pointed out the problem in your post. The local shop is using a 286 running dos. You are trying to use much faster computers and windows. Load up true dos on that laptop and it should work if the machine is slow enough.

L.E.

As L.E. mentioned, it sounds like you are trying to run the program in a DOS Window. You need to reboot the machine in DOS mode. There are several ways to do this, including choosing "reboot in MS-DOS mode" at the shutdown menu, or pressing F8 at boot-up & choosing "command prompt only" at the menu. Even better would be to use a bootable DOS 6.22 floppy disk to ensure no aspect of Windows loads. Assuming you have a recent version of MTSX software (6.05.00 or higher, preferably) then it should run with no problems.

Todd

Ok, THanks!!! BUT, when I get into DOS, what is the command to actually run the program, I've totally forgotten how to run DOS, thanks for the replies!

You type whatever the execute file is called, so if it's named "MT2000.EXE", then you type MT2000

I believe it is MTSX by default.

L.E.

I believe it's "mtsx.bat" or something close.

And remember, you must reboot the machine in pure DOS. No windows, no "dos mode" in windows, no. Use a floppy formatted as a DOS 6.22 system disk and boot the machine up with that in the drive. That should bring you to an A> prompt. Change to c:, navigate to the correct directory and run the executable.

This will work in Win95 as your file system is (should be!) FAT16 and not NTFS or something else odd that DOS won't recognise.

While in DOS, type in the stand by command to see how the files are listed and what is the command string to run the program.

c:\dir/w/p to bring the entire file up in a wide view in page mode, which will ask you to hit enter to proceed to the next screen if there are any.

Find the command path that should begin with the file name and the extension, like MT2000.EXE

If you are storing the program to C: from a floppy, then you need to do one thing first IFyou do not have the included hard disk installer on that disk by typing the following..

C:\MD MT2000

Enter

C:\CD\MT2000

Enter

C:\MT2000> MT2000 [ENTER] should run the program from there.

Your actual file name may be different, this is just to illustrate the steps only.

The MTSX executable is actually named runtime.exe

Rick Rock wrote:The MTSX executable is actually named runtime.exe

You are correct!

I just accessed mine and that's the command I had to use.

A few of my 'other' ones use 'labtool' typed in to run, but I didn't type that, did I?

Ran the program on an old pentium 2 233mhz in dos, PROBLEM SOLVED!! Thanks for the help, gang!

Charles

dir /w/p *.exe

will show you all the executables

dir /w/p *.bat (or *.com, etc...) will show you JUST the executable files in a folder directory, which is MUCH easier than looking for exe's in a folder full of DLL's.