Sorry to resurrect an old topic, but I'm going through a similar situation right now and I figured that responding to this old thread was the easiest way to let everyone know that I have already researched the subject to some extent.
Anyway, my old laptop suffered a fatal hard-drive hemorage two weeks ago and have since been supplied with a replacement (computer had been used for another controls guy previously, but I'm trying to set it up for me).
When I received this computer (HP/Compaq nc6000, Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1), it already had RSLogix 500 v5.50, RSLinx Lite v2.31 and Panelbuilder v3.71 - all of which were fully functional. I upgraded to Panelbuilder v3.81 (skipping the RSLinx install) and added RSLogix 5000 v13.03 (also skipping RSLinx), as well as some unrelated (non-Rockwell/AB) software.
After making the above software installs, RSLinx started doing some very strang things.
-RSLinx would not start at all (Harmony does start) if not set up as service
-RSLinx will run when started as service, but RSWho comes up with the "Failed to create empty document" error message.
-Attempting to use "System Comms" or "Who active - go online" from RSLogix will shut RSLogix down completely.
My first impression was that Linx was at too old of a version to work with the new software that I had installed, so I uninstalled v2.31 (without backing up
) and installed v2.41. Unfortunately, v2.41 didn't work AT ALL
. At this point I decided that v2.31 seemed closer than v2.41 - so I uninstalled and reinstalled - with the exact same results.
I have since tried all of the steps discussed in post #4 above (I couldn't find the actual knowledgebase article) with no luck. One interesting note, DOS did not accept the PKKINST -PACKAGE:HARMONY -REGSERVER command as spelled out in step #2.
So (if anybody is still reading without dosing off) that is where I am stuck. I could next try going back to v2.41 and adding the hotfix referenced in another post
http://www.plctalk.net/qanda/showthread.php?t=7581&highlight=RSLINX+EMPTY or downloading and installing latest and greatest (I'm actually in the middle of downloading v2.43 right now, but have to download 98 individual files because IT won't allow the Java download utility).
Anyway, I lurk on here all the time, but have only posted a few times, with good results. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :site: