2. INSTALLING GAMMAVISION
You must have Administrator access in Windows to install GammaVision.
2.1. Step 1: Installing C
ONNECTIONS
The first step is to install the C
ONNECTIONS
Driver Update Kit (p/n 797230) according to its instruction sheet (p/n 932721). The update kit’s instructions tell how to install C
ONNECTIONS and enable/disable the drivers for your ORTEC MCB(s), and share ORTEC instruments across a network. It also points you to information on selecting the proper network protocol for older, direct-to-Ethernet units. At the end of installation, you will be directed to restart the PC.
NOTE
If you attempt to install GammaVision before C
ONNECTIONS
, a message will indicate that C
ONNECTIONS
must be installed first. If a “program compatibility assistant” dialog then opens saying”this program may not have installed correctly,” click Cancel to close it, install C
ONNECTIONS
, then install GammaVision.
2.2. Step 2: Installing GammaVision
1) Insert the GammaVision CD. Open the Computer option, select the CD drive, then locate and open or “
\Disk1\Setup.exe
. One or more security dialogs will open. Choose the “
continue
” option, then the installation wizard will start. Click Next to begin
” moving through the wizard screens.
2) Select the English, French, Chinese, or German language interface; and continue to the end of installation.
NOTE
Do not use the Windows Regional Settings feature to change the decimal delimiter within GammaVision. Instead, we strongly recommend that you match your
GammaVision language interface selection to the PC’s operating system language.
Otherwise you may obtain unexpected analysis results.
3) The wizard will offer you the option of installing the new example files in their own folder,
C:\User\GammaVision V7 Examples
. These demonstration/tutorial files including spectra, calibrations, libraries, analysis results files, derived air concentration (DAC) correction files, etc. If you unmark this checkbox, the files will not be installed. This option allows you to keep example files from different GammaVision versions from being overwritten.
4) If you are upgrading from an older version of GammaVision and have made any changes to the
b30winds.ini
been renamed analysis settings file, a message will indicate that your copy of this file has
. GammaVision will install a new copy of configured to use the new version’s factory settings.
b30winds.ini
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GammaVision
®
v7 (A66-BW) 783620H / 1013
5) File installation locations are as follows:
! All GammaVision program files are installed in the
\Program Files
folder in 32-bit
Windows 7 and XP; in 64-bit Windows 7, GammaVision installed in the
(x86)
folder.
\Program Files
! The
\GammaVision
folder contains the GammaVision executable, all analysis engines, user manual PDFs, help files, language support files, and the
b30winds.ini
analysis engine parameter file.
! The QA database is installed in
C:\User
and all context files are in
C:\User\Cxt
.
! GVPlot, C
ONNECTIONS
, and the library editor are stored in the program files folder under
\Common Files\ORTEC Shared
.
! The default storage folder for all spectrum, analysis, report, and graphics files generated by GammaVision is
C:\User
. You can change this on the Directories tab under File/
Settings... as discussed in Section 5.1.1.4.
NOTES
Version 7 analysis settings (
.SDF
) and geometry correction (
.GEO
) files are not compatible with earlier versions of GammaVision.
Beginning with v7, the GammaVision analysis engines are now installed separately from the software application. This is transparent during v7 installation. However, the Windows software install/uninstall utility now lists these two GammaVision entities separately (Fig. 1), and they can be installed and uninstalled separately.
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Fig. 1. GammaVision Program and Analysis Engines in Control Panel.
783620H / 1013 2. INSTALLING GAMMAVISION
2.3. Step 3: Running MCB Configuration to Establish
Communication With Your ORTEC MCBs
1) If you have purchased new ORTEC spectroscopy hardware, connect it and power it on according to its accompanying hardware manual.
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2) Connect and power on all local and network ORTEC instruments that you wish to use, as well as their associated PCs. Otherwise, the MCB Configuration program will not detect them during installation. Any instruments not detected can be configured at a later time.
3) To start the software, enter mcb in the “
search programs and files
” box, then click the MCB
Configuration search result; or open the Windows Start menu and click GammaVision, then MCB Configuration. The MCB Configuration program will locate all of the poweredon ORTEC Detectors on the local PC and the network, and display the list of instruments found (the Master Instrument List; Fig. 2). If you wish, you may enter customized instrument
ID numbers and descriptions (Section 2.3.2). When you close the dialog, any changes you have made to an ID number or description will be written back to the corresponding
Detector.
Fig. 2. Detector Numbering and Descriptions.
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The first time a particular MCB model is connected, a”found new hardware” wizard will start up. Choose not to
“search the internet for a driver” option, then choose to automatically search for the driver.
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