DONGLE
DONGLE
(OP)
I HAVE GOT A NEWS PC, INSTALLED ALL THE SOFTWARE AND PLUGGED MY DONGLE IN THE BACK BUT EVERYTIME I LOAD UP SOLIDWORKS IT SAYS MY SECURITY DEVICE (DONGLE) IS MISSING OR OUT OF DATE, HOW DO I GET IT TO WORK?
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RE: DONGLE
I know COSMOS/Works does...
"Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."
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From my understanding a dongle is for people that live outside the US. These people must have a Dongle on their machines to run SW.
However I could be wrong on this.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com
RE: DONGLE
I have also seen high schools that are using the student version of SolidWorks with dongles on their machines. One in particular almost threw the software out because of all the problems with the dongles. I have heard but have not varified that you may need the dongle present on the machine when installing SoildWorks.
One other thing you might check and make sure the port that you are plugging the dongle into is working. Plug a printer or some other device in to see if it works. I had a dongle back on SW95 and it actually kept corrupting my port. After two new motherboards, which the PC manufacture flipped the bill for, we just bought a second license.
If I am not mistaken we have went through three or four sets of dongles here for our network. They do not seem very reliaable. You may have a bad dongle.
BBJT CSWP
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Thanks for the heads-up about Dongles and SWX, I had no idea.
Going back to what you said BBJT, I think you may be on to something about having to have the dongle inserted prior to installing the software. At my last company we had software (I can't remember the name at the moment) that used a dongle. The dongle actually had a IC chip that was programed with various information that was updated during the install. Without the dongle, the install never worked.
"Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."
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Crashj 'another probelm solved' Johnson
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BBJT CSWP
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To get to the point, when we first installed the software (SW 2001) it came with a bad dongle. I just had to email the tech support at SWX with the dongle ID (on the side of your dongle) and they could tell me if it was a bad one or not. When I updated to 2001+ I had to get a new License manager file, also you get from SWX.
In the long run the dongle is a real pain in the #$%!
Hope this helps!
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Regards,
Jon
jgbena@yahoo.com
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What operating system are you using?? We've had the same problem with Windows 2000 professional. The probelm was that the parallel port the dongle was plugged into was not active. To activate it do....
Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/Ports/LPT1 Properties/Then check the 'enable legacy plug and play detection' box and click ok. You might have to reboot windows (been a while since I did this), but solid works should now fire up OK.
Hope this helps.
Graeme
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Once you find this website, then look for the crack for
Solidworks.
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Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
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