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We acquired a new customer some time back that has an analog pathfinder (24-port). When we acquired them, their pathfinder hard-drive was dead and we put a 12 port in skin in its place as a temporary fix. They have since acquired another company and are needing the 24 port capacity once again.

We have installed all the software and drivers, but still are unable to get the dialogic cards to be seen by the Pathfinder. The only other analog pathfinder we have was pre-build, so I have never had to deal with this (I have since gone to that site and made a full drive image after this fiasco).

If I use the Intel DVX? software, it is not able to auto detect the cards either, I am sure because it is ISA..but who know. Anyway, just looking for some guidance. Tech Support was of no help.

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There should be a dialogic driver installation program on the PF software CD. Use it after windows detects the cards. When Windows restarts after a reboot it should detect the cards keep pressing next as it attempts to locate the drivers just press finish.


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I think the motherboard may be messed up as well since windows never sees the cards. It has been so long since I have used anything ISA, I was not sure if they would be seen by the OS automatically or not. Will try some more tomorrow. Thanks!

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Make sure your ISA slots are set to legacy not plug and play in the BIOS.


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I seem to remeber that the last time I built an analog PF, which was years ago, that I had to manually set the interrupts for the cards.

I have a 16 port analog PF here in my shop if there is something you need me to look for.


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I have a couple of multi company systems with the inskin Pathfinder and a digital Dispatch. Cheap and easy solution for heavy traffic.

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I really appreciate everyone's input. Still working with the analog and it most likely is the IRQ's, but having a tough go which is why we think the motherboard is toast. We are looking at the traffic on the current inskin and have really not noticed a heavy increase in traffic and there seems to be plenty of ports available.....although trying to convince the customer is another thing.

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Just an update, we have been able to get everything up and running. The pathfinder files that I have always used were from the FTP site and apparently they do not contain the drivers/configurator for some of the older cards. Luckily, I found the original CD on site and use it and the 16 port dialogic card came right up in the configuration program and I manually added the additional 4 port boards, copied over the pathfinder folder and everyone is happy.

Thanks everyone!


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