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From: Jon Hagen

Date: Nov. 10,2000

Subject: Installation of HFSS7

This program was running on the 383MB Dell computer until the computer crashed in August, 2000. The crash required that a new hard disk be installed. Program files on the old disk,

however, could still be read, and that disk was also installed. The new disk was partitioned as drives C and E, while the old disk was partitioned as drives D,F,G, and H.

Windows NT, etc, is on the 530MB drive C. The 6.3GB drive E was empty and HFSS7 was installed on that drive. The installation was done using the CD and installation manual received from Ansoft. The new license file, needed to run the program, was obtained via email from Ansoft (see attached copy of the email message from Bob Helsby of Ansoft). In case we have to install this software again, note the following:

We have one hardware key, number 0000010a8a, which must be plugged into the parallel port of the computer running HFSS7. This key was supplied with HFSS6. The HFSS7 software, which we received because we were then paying the $5k/yr maintenance fee, uses the same hardware key. The hardware key is only part of the security system. Our single computer (non-networked) software also uses a "codeword" file. Our setup does not use a license file or any "Flexm" software and, in fact, must have no license file(s) present, as the system will try to use it or them instead of the proper "codeword" file.

Installation can be done as follows:

a. The software can be installed by running setup.exe from the CD labeled "Ansoft HFSS7.0 Optimetrics" without first trying to install the codeword file. Follow the procedure beginning on page 2-4 of the installation manual. At "Enter licenses, which seems to mean "licenses or code words" you probably can direct the system to A:\codeword if you have prepared such a disk. But you can manually enter the code words later, following the procedure on page

2-14 of the installation manual.

b. Install the Sentinel driver, following the instructions on page 2-12 of the installation manual.

c. assuming you have not yet dealt with the code words, you can enter them manually from the attached email letter, following the procedure on page 2-15 of the installation manual. You must enter four code words, one of each of four "products".

Product	Codeword

Maxwell Control Panel 2.0, GUI	AA78766F20D51156

Ansoft HFSS 7, Post-Processor	EC5EFDEB8D1C46C4

Ansoft HFSS 7, Solver	8F12895922EFDF71

Ansoft HFSS 7, GUI	3400DAB55B5420FF

(These code words are copied here from the attached email from Ansoft's Bob Helsby).

d. At this point, the installation was not finished; trying to load a project resulted in the

message "unable to check out a hfss_gui license for Administrator@JAZZ", followed by the message "Program ANSOFHFSS7 died abnormally".

A phone call to Ansof's Louis Reash produced the fix. The manual entry of the code words created the file E:\ansoft\admin\codeword. This file had to be copied (using Windows Explorer) to two more directories, to produce the files

E:\ansoft\hfss7\admin\codeword and E:\ansoft\marparam\admin\codeword

at which point the program seemed to operate correctly.