Using the Fortran Medic Utility to Determine your PSCAD USB Lock Number

Use the Fortran Medic utility to determine your the license number for your PSCAD USB lock as follows:

  • Ensure Sentinel Drivers are installed on your machine. If not, they may be downloaded from the following link and installed:
    http://updater.pscad.com/utilities/USBDrivers_7.6.0.zip

  • Securely plug in the USB lock to the machine USB port.

  • Download the latest “FortranMedic” from our website:
    http://updater.pscad.com/utilities/FortranMedic.zip

  • Unzip the downloaded file, save it to a local drive, and run the "FortranMedic.exe" file.

Note - When prompted whether to run this utility with Windows Administrator privileges, just select "No".

  • Click on the Actions menu and select "Start".

  • After the utility is done retrieving information, scroll down, almost to the bottom of the utility, to the heading: "Lock-based Licensing".

  • Down below this heading, (scroll down a bit further), the license number associated with the USB lock should be displayed, similarly to the following:

Sentinel lock...
Detected: ######-####

If the lock number is not listed, please try one of the other methods for determining a lock number, as listed in this topic. For ongoing issues, please send in your log files to the MHI support desk for assistance (support@mhi.ca).

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