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Windows 10 power settings for EthoVision XT
Disabling sleep/standby and fast startup will prevent issues and improve performance.
Reinstalling the Picolo Alert drivers for EthoVision
The Picolo Alert is the framegrabber most commonly used for analog cameras in EthoVision XT 15. Reinstall the drivers if it has ceased to work after a Windows update.
Reinstalling the Picolo Diligent drivers for EthoVision XT
Reinstall the drivers if this digitizer card for analog cameras is not recognized in EthoVision XT 4.0-10.0.
Starting in EthoVision XT 17.0, EthoVision is too large to install from a single file. The download is provided as a zip file (compressed folder) which must be extracted to a folder before installation can proceed.
EthoVision XT Settings are Locked, Unable to Modify
Once data has been acquired in EthoVision using a specific profile (Arena, Trial Control, or Detection), they become locked from changes (red arrows). You can duplicate these profiles and edit the new copy.
CatWalk XT classified footprints are grayed out
Footprints that were previously classified/labeled show up in Classification, but some/all are grayed out in Run Visualizations and Run Statistics.
The Observer XT Error Id 12524 – Event Log Read Failure
The message indicates that the event log files cannot be found. These files are distinct from the project file (the .vop file) and if they have been separated from the rest of the project, this error will occur.
EthoVision XT file error Id 10034 Experiment cannot be repaired
This error occurs when you try and open an experiment in EthoVision XT and it reports error id 10034 "experiment cannot be repaired"
I cannot find my project’s VOP file. I see a file that looks like it might be it, but I am unsure
This issue involves a situation where you are attempting to open a project in The Observer XT via the project’s folder (by default in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Noldus\The Observer XT\Projects) and you do not see the project’s “Observer Project” (or .vop)
FaceReader will not install and the resulting Log file says Access Denied 0x80070005
This issue involves a situation where the installation of FaceReader on your PC fails and the resulting log file says “Error 0x80070005”