SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP14263 PART NUMBER: 276266-009 FILE NAME: 276800-009 TITLE: Compaq Rack Builder Pro VERSION: 2.6 Rev A LANGUAGE: French CATEGORY: Software Solutions DIVISIONS: Systems PRODUCTS AFFECTED: All Compaq systems running Windows 95/98/NT/2000 OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 95/98/NT/2000 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000 PREREQUISTES: Microsoft Data Access Components version 2.1 or higher must be installed; systems running Windows 95 must also have DCOM for Windows 95 installed. To ascertain which components are installed, Microsoft's Component Checker Tool may be run. This tool, and the current versions of MDAC and DCOM95 can be accessed at http://www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm. Also your computer must have the following settings: Graphics Card: 16-bit (65,536 colors) at 800x600 resolution Font: Small EFFECTIVE DATE: June 16, 2000 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 3.1 SUPERSEDES: SP13011 DESCRIPTION: Compaq Rack Builder Pro 2.6 is a powerful application which allows a customer to configure a single or a suite of racks. There are two available methods for building a rack suite configuration which are: "Builder Mode", which enables adding and removing components with the Drag-and-Drop interface feature, and "Assisted Mode", which features a guided interview process to determine the optimum distribution of rack mountable components. There are a variety of reports available which will allow you to print or view the rack solution. Enhancements/Fixes: Product Updates Rack graphics are now saved along with reports to allow the reports to be viewed on systems on which Rack Builder Pro is not installed. Multiple instances of a component may be renamed from the Specifications tab in Builder Mode. Users may add up to 4 PDU's per rack in Visual Rack Builder after exiting Assisted Mode. HOW TO USE: 1. Create a new directory on your unit where you want to download the softpaq executable file. 2. Select "Current Version" of Rack Builder PRO (Version 2.6) and select the appropriate language version (SP142xx.exe). 3. Click the "Download" button; choose to Save the Program to Disk. Then browse to the newly created directory and select "Save". 4. Go to the created directory and execute the downloaded softpaq executable. The following two files will created: SETUPxxx.EXE SP142xx.txt 5. There are three ways to run setup***.exe, which will install the program: a) From the Start/Run option type the path of where the executable was copied to. (Ex.: c:\PRO\setupxxx.exe). b) From Windows Explorer go to the created directory and run the executable. c) Go to a DOS prompt, change to the created directory, and run the executable, i.e., (c:\PRO\setupxxx.exe). 6. After selcting one of the above, follow the online instructions.