Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
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Hi,
I have recently installed solidworks 2006 and it wont stop crashing indiscriminately. It will crash during an assembly, when creating a feature, or during the drafting mode as well. I cannot see a pattern here myself. This was a fresh install, and all updates were performed prior to installation. Just recently I fully uninstalled the video driver and re-installed the reccomended one from solidworks. I have lowered the hardware acceleration, and disabled write combining on the video card settings. I have also done what this thread (thread559-135741) had suggested and it still keeps crashing. I don't understand why. Could I have some incorrect system settings? Or could my hardware not be functioning correctly? I noticed that when I downloaded the driver for my vid. card it was not certified by WinXP. I also get a fragment from my cursor when I click on the workspace or features...just a little square the size of the cursor display. If anyone knows what could be wrong I would really appreciate the help...this is begining to get very innefficient.
Thanks!!
I have recently installed solidworks 2006 and it wont stop crashing indiscriminately. It will crash during an assembly, when creating a feature, or during the drafting mode as well. I cannot see a pattern here myself. This was a fresh install, and all updates were performed prior to installation. Just recently I fully uninstalled the video driver and re-installed the reccomended one from solidworks. I have lowered the hardware acceleration, and disabled write combining on the video card settings. I have also done what this thread (thread559-135741) had suggested and it still keeps crashing. I don't understand why. Could I have some incorrect system settings? Or could my hardware not be functioning correctly? I noticed that when I downloaded the driver for my vid. card it was not certified by WinXP. I also get a fragment from my cursor when I click on the workspace or features...just a little square the size of the cursor display. If anyone knows what could be wrong I would really appreciate the help...this is begining to get very innefficient.
Thanks!!






RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
-not installed correctly
-virus software is running when SW is installed
-incorrect hardware
-very little RAM
-no SW training
-problems with server and/or network
SP's will fix bugs and do updates, but these bugs are not usually culprits of crashes.
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Could you give us a run down of your system (video card, driver, ram and OS)
Netshop21 - I would like to disagree with your statement
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Your hardware specs would help greatly, but I will say that 2006 is more of a memory and/or cpu hog than 2005. At home I have a standard Dell desktop PC, and I can run 40 meg files in SW 2005 without any problem, but the same files in 2006 bogs my pc down.
Flores
SW 2005 SP 4.
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Jason Forward
Solidworks 2005 sp3.0
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Video: ATI Fire GL X2 256t Driver 6.14.10.6521 (SW Reccomended)
Ram: 1 GB RAM non ecc
cpu: P4 3.0 GHz Hyper Threading
OS: Win XP Home
HD: 60 GB IDE Barracuda
Mobo: P4SD-LA ASUS board w AGP x8
Is this ok?
thanks!
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
2) XP home is not supported for SW06. It's not say it will not work, but it is not supported and I have had many people call with not being able to install on XP home or get a good install of it on their system... not honestly sure why that is, but it's not supported either.
3) Turn Hyper threading off - It's just a performance hit you probably don't want to take - See bios to shutoff
Please check out the Maintainence FAQ's as you need to perform these routines weekly. Defragging believe it or not helps out tremendously.
FAQ559-884
FAQ559-908
FAQ559-507
FAQ559-1066
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Alan M. Etzkorn

Reliability Engineer
Wabash National Corp.
www.wabashnational.com
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Thanks for the information, I will give these a try and let everone know if the problem gets resolved. I am sure the video driver is fine, it was completely uninstalled and reinstalled properly. As for the Hyperthreading issue, I was unaware, I'll change it. One more question. How much would ECC ram help? Ive read its supposed to be more stable than non ECC...
Thanks for the help!!
RE: Solidworks 2006 wont stop crashing....
Did the fixes suggested above help? or Not?
I'm concerned about 1 GB Ram, that's our standard setup here.
Not sure why XP Home won't work well, only diff are supposted to be networking ability.
Many thanks,
Wayne Walker
IS Dept, General Atomics
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support69
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376