Showing posts with label update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label update. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Adobe Flash Update Wont Install - I FIXED IT!

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I have a number of VirtualBox VM's running Windows on a Windows 7 Host.
Regularly when I come to do an Adobe Flash update for one of the Browsers (more often than not it happens to be FireFox) and the stub download occurs ok and you fire off the exe, avoid all the crapware and it gets part way through the download and install and fails ... nearly every time.

I discovered two things:
  1. I was saving the download to a shared drive running off the host machine and mapped into my VM's ... quite a few installers will not work across the virtualised drive mapping!!!!
    ... including Adobe Flash.
    Copy the downloaded installer (e.g. flashplayer21_xa_install.exe) to the system drive of the VM and 95% of the time it will install without a hitch.
  2. The other 5%, I wound up closing the browser as well, as soon as I kicked-off the exe
 99.9999% Flash update success rate now !  :-)


Thursday, 11 July 2013

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New Version of SAMIL SolarPower Browser™ (v3.1.0.0)


Last version I used was v2.9.2.6
v3.1.0.0 is now available on the SAMIL support site in zip format

I've downloaded it so I'll post my findings after I've installed it and run it up.
Anyone else used this newer version yet?

About 20mins later ... (19:55)
Software v3.1 is installed and operational.
First up it wouldn't find the inverter so I rebooted the inverter 
by going into Network Settings and selecting the Ethernet option  and OK'ing out.
I'm now sitting here watching the inverter appear and disappear in the SolarPower Browser
as it reboots itself multiple times ... we are up to the fourth appearance ...
five ...
six ...
seven ...
eight ...
... no new events in the history, just rebooting over and over...
nine ...
ten ...
... software seems a little different in content but nothing useful in terms of controlling the networking
eleven ...
twelve ...
 (20:10) I'll come back later and see if it's still rebooting ...
... constantly restarting can't be good for it  ...

Now 22:53 and still rebooting itself every few minutes! 
I've physically disconnected it from the network , though I've never found a way to remove
the WIFI settings once they've been successfully entered!
Short of disconnecting it from the mains I can see no way of stopping it from
continually restarting ... hopefully it will come good when the solar is applied tomorrow!!

For the money it cost, I really am very unimpressed with the firmware in this thing!
If you didn't want to monitor and manage it ... i.e. just let it sit on the wall and generate, 
it would be fine, but one of the reasons I bought this brand 
was because of its supposed manageability.