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PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

(OP)
Hello,
We have a problem with upgrading memory.
What we are doing is assembling many large models
into one assembly to check for interferences.
Okay, now with the problem.
We have IBM Intelli-stations Z-Pros, about 2 years old they have 1gig processors, wildcat 32 meg video cards, and 512 ram, running on WIN NT......
.....I know that is half the problem WIN NT
The main assembly is 13.9 megs and we wanted to upgrade to 4 gigs of ram.
The problem is that we get blue screens and/or lock ups and then blue screen......if you are familiar with IBM's.
We called PTC and they gave us new build codes and it still locks up, we can pull the model except
when we rotate/pan/zoom we get the lock up and then the blue screen.
We have tried to just upgrade to 2 gigs of memory but the same thing. We can run 1 gig safely but,
we need more ram. This model is just to much for 1 gig of memory.
This model is very, very, very busy so we need to have the shading on to see clearly where the interferences would
be located at.

Thank you for reading


Greg

RE: PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

i do not think the motherboard will correctly work with 2gigs of Ram.

RE: PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

We have IBM Z-pro's that are 30 months old. They all support 2GB of RAM and we have 2 of them running with 2GB. WinNT will be your limiting factor.

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RE: PROBLEMS UPGRADING MEMORY

Hello. I have had a similar problem with managing large asaemblies. I work with large models of sub-sea vehicles, the best machine are 2.8 ghz processors with two gig of ram and the models are still too large. From my research the best way to deal with it is to make the large assembly from shrinkwrap of smaller sub-assemblies. I make the shrinkwrap non associative because it vastly reduces memory useage, you can not affect the parent assembly accidently, you have less parts in your workspace, and makeing large models associative is a pain. Shrinkwraps can be made to look identical in colours and everything. They can be displayed on drawings, even though the PTC helpline told me that they could not!

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