6/28/2017 7:38 PM | |
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Hi guys, After 2 days reinstalling/uninstalling/installing TIA Portal V14 SP1 I'd like to share my experience and maybe spare you some frustrating hours! TIA Portal V14SP1 was OK, then Win10x64 updated and I lost connection to the PLCs on the network, only PLCSIM was available. I reinstalled TIA - no errors, same result. Uninstalled following the file/folder hunting manual in Complete TIA Uninstall , started a fresh installation and ended up with with a lot of errors complaining on incompatible product versions! Uninstalled again to realize SIEMENS completely redefined "Complete Uninstall" - a simple search through the registry detects several thousands of "Siemens", "Simatic" and "TIA Portal" entries, even a bunch of intact device drivers are left over?!?!? not to mention the SQL2008 WinCC instance! Instead of writing an article on "Complete Uninstall" why not supply a simple script to do the job??? After Reg Organizer and cleaning by hand for several hours Windows rebooted successfully and here come my 2 cents of wisdom: 1. Make a complete backup of your still intact registry! before you install/uninstall any piece of software as large as TIA Portal. 2. Use a monitoring program like SysTracer or even Reg Organizer when running the installation - this is a bit tricky because TIA insists to repeatedly reboot Windows as in the good old days, but it helps, TIA is really integrated - ~ 30 separate products are in! 3. When you get the monster running -- use a system imaging program - Acronis True Image or Faronics Deep Freeze etc. - using them is far less pain then dealing with the installation mess, or at least disable Windows update! Otherwise You face the risk to end up with a junkyard on your own disk - and this IS YOUR TIME, YOUR DISK SPACE and your STRESS! The new installation ended up with following error : ERROR AdsWorkerClassicComponent::OnWorkerCompleted(): - ClassicProduct setup failed due to unknown error Nevertheless TIA Portal v14SP1 is running now, and I can see the PLCs again, even managed to updated SP1 to Update 1! All in all TIA Portal is a great piece of software, but the supporting install/uninstall/update infrastructure is a joke! Can't believe it is the work of the same crew! Have a nice day and may the force be with you when you install TIA! |
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