Windows Millenium Crashing
Windows Millenium Crashing
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Iam using Windows millenium with P3 with 768 ram and am having real problems with Solid works hanging up, it sems to run ok but sometimes when I try to open a file or insert to an assemble I get the black sceen. I notice that I sometimes get a error message Spash not responding. Any sollutions to this problem greatly recieved.Iam now using SP2.0 but this problem has happened with SP0 and SP1.2
Thanks in advance Jimp
Thanks in advance Jimp






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ME, 95, and 98 are all horrible memory managers. Windows NT, 2000, or XP is the only to go. I can almost guarantee your Black screens will go away. I have W2K at home and think can only recall one crash that I have had with SW running. All other crashes I have had is when I'm running a game.
I hope this helps,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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BBJT CSWP
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That's what I get for responding at 3:00 in the morning.
Scott Baugh, CSWP
credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
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I was running SW on Windows ME and had thousands of problems. After I purchased and installed W2K never had a single problem. I have W2K for 10 months now and it never crashed, with or without SW.
Andrew
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John
* If RAM is not being used Win Me assumes it is available and allocates it to another program, which causes programs over lapping each other and therefore crashes
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I hate Win ME, too. I have it on my home system. Can I install W2K over it [ie, Upgrade] without having to reinstall all my software?
Crashj 'wincrashes a specialty' Johnson
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If you just want to put in the W2K CD and auto install I highly recommend AGAINST it. Install a fresh copy, I have been there and have suffered!
If you want help post here again and I will do my best to help out.
John
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Sorry for my delayed reply. My computer recently had some major hardware failures and I just go my computer back today. (Went out Sept 25).
Presently Im running Win ME right now. Im getting rid of it today and going to Win 2000 ASAP. But I am first going to try to get so that I have both OSes on this system and so I can choose which OS I want to use. If I can't figure out how to do that Im just going to format C: and reload Win 2000 by itself.
So my suggestion to you is either try the way I described above or...make lots of backups and format C: and load Windows 2000. Cause like DSI pointed out I have never had a good experience in doing an upgrade like that. Besides you should always make backups of important data. Because if you do try an upgrade and it doesn't work and you haven't backed up...you will be SOL and have to reformat it anyhow.
I HTH and GL!
Scott Baugh, CSWP

credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dmca.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
*When in doubt always check the help*
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I formatted my C: and I just reinstalled Win2000. Everything seems to be fine as far as I can tell so far.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP

credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dmca.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
*When in doubt always check the help*
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dmca.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
*When in doubt always check the help*
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I do not know if this is your problem but check out
http://www.solidworks.com/swdocs/support/AMD/
Bradley
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"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
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Thanks
Kevin
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Scott Baugh, CSWP

credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dmca.com
http://home.insightbb.com/~scott.baugh/
*When in doubt always check the help*
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Thanks for all you help. I loaded 2000 profesonal a month ago and my machine has not crassed once, brfore it was up to 6 times a day, so dump ME or 98 and move to 2000 if you are using Solid works 2001 plus.
2003 in 3 weeks great!
Thanks again Jimp
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Are there any major differences in running 2k or Xp editions or are they similar in performance for Swx?
Thanks all.
David
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I use W2000 and I have had no problems with SW2001. as for XP I cannot comment as I have no experience with it. I would think it is the same because XP is built on the NT platform of which W2000 is the most recent version.
John