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Reinstalling Solidworks

Reinstalling Solidworks

Reinstalling Solidworks

(OP)
I've just got a new Presario 900 laptop with Microsoft XP (Home edition) and tryed to reload my Solidworks 2000 but keep getting a message that the current platform is not supported "i386".
Anyone experienced the same problem?
Any solutions - without having to buy a completely new Solidworks package?

Thanks in advance. MPS - England

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

I don't know about sw2k, but sw2k3 only runs on AMD machines if they have WinXP Pro (at least that's what SW warns). I don't know if there's any trick to solve this limitation.

Good Luck

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

I tried to install my SolidWorks 2001 on a Windows XP Home edition, and got the same error message. There is a way to get around it and run the setup by using the Program Compatibility Wizard (go to Start->Help and type: "Program Compatibility Wizard").
This got me past the installation, but after starting SolidWorks I realized that I could only open Parts and not Assemblies, weird. You may have better luck with SolidWorks 2000.
Let us know how it worked out.

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

I have XP Home at home! I have an AMD 2200 cpu running SWX 2003 with no problem. I did a "traditional" install.

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

MacPT,

SW2003 runs on both Intel and AMD Machines.

See the SW Website: http://www.solidworks.com/swdocs/products/systemrequirements.cfm This website goes into better detai than what I have listed below.

Also check out the "STOP Read this first" Orange paper that comes with every seat of SW. Check out "System Requirements"

1st bullet: "Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional(Recommended), Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2) (Recommended), Windows NT®4.0 (Service Pack 6), Windows Me and Windows 98 (Second Edition only)

2nd Bullet: "Intel Pentium or AMD Athlons based computers. For systems running WinXP pro, Windows 2000, Windows NT."

No where does it say that SW03 only runs on AMD machines if they have WinXP Pro. I have a laptop that is an Intel P4 with Win XP Pro and SW03 runs great on it. I also have a Desktop that has W2K and the CPU is an AMD... nothing wrong here.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.3dmca.com

*When in doubt always check the help*

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

You can install SolidWorks on Windows XP with a traditional install starting from SolidWorks 2001 +. If you have any previous version of SolidWorks (2001 and older) you will need to use the "Program Compatibility Wizard" (see my previous post).
I should add that I only tried it on Windows XP home edition, not XP pro.

RE: Reinstalling Solidworks

I never says that SW supports WinXP home. So the way I see it is (personaly opinion)...SW doesn't support XP home, only Pro. XP Home is as bad as using Win 95, 98, 98SE (even though it is support), & ME.

Some people may have installed and it works fine, but your going to find limitations when you don't use the proper OS or the recommended OS.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
credence69@REMOVEhotmail.com
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.3dmca.com

*When in doubt always check the help*

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