DTR Tech Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 I have successfully created and used a main control unit replacement for the 330/340 model machine. I have about 5 of them in machines right now and have been for the past year. It is based on the HP DC7700 PC to replace the Toshiba unit in the Frontier machines. I have designed and manufactured a PCB to replace the “Timer” board in the current units. Attached is a write up I did with some images. I have also created a different OS load disk with a bit of effort. This makes replacing these much cheaper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe21 Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 thanks...may I have a copy of the ghost image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe21 Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 also wondering if there is a way to make one for the SP2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTR Tech Posted February 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 Thats the hard part. For that I had to use a windows load for the DC7700 then I copied the entire contents of the Frontier main hard drive on top of it and with some effort cleared the registry errors. It is stable as I have it. The ghost image that I created is currently setup for use with my current company. Not sure if the windows build is licensed to them or not... Resolution must be 800X600. CD drive must be N:. 2 partitions can be on one physical drive for C and D which allows the Frontier software to install properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe21 Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 are you using windows xp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTR Tech Posted February 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 The Frontier software tends to not like operating systems other then the ones that they were designed to run on. In this case I am using Windows 2000. The original Uses Windows 2000 embedded. I loaded windows 2000, Copy and pasted the entire contents of a good frontier hard drive with just the OS load. Then ran a windows 2000 repair utility to fix what that messed up. After working through what ever errors and changing all the settings to what I needed I built the ghost image. The reason why I needed to copy the Frontier hard drive is because I think there is some drivers and other files that need to be on the new drive. I tried it with a regular windows 2000 load and it installed and printed fine. I was unable to get into the scanner adjustment and maint. menu however. Everything works fine now after layering the hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe21 Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 thank you...I will try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francois Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 Dear sir, what you means is: you install the window2000 in the new PC first, and then you copy the C drive of the good frontier to the C drive of the new PC, and you run the windows 2000 repair utility to fix....is it right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTR Tech Posted March 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2011 Yes, That's pretty much what I did. After you get it going. I recommend making an image of your working hard drive so things are a bit easier in the future. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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