troublestarter

hi guys i'm new here and need a bit of assistaqnce. We have a termlab that used to work on an old laptpo which died a long time ago. i was informed that i could you the spl labs software with the term lab. the laptop i'm using is running windows 8 i have downloaded the spl labs sofware, plugged in the term lab and run instacal. but when i go to use the spl labs program, it just says that iti s searching and does nothing.Have idone something wrong? any help would be really appreciated