OT Hard drive swap due to SW.

[CubicleHound]

I know this is off topic but there are two reasons I am posting this here:

1. There is no other forum I have found that gets as many replies as this SW forum

2. SW has forced this upon me so idirectly it is SW problem

My group of engineers has three RAMBUS Dells and a couple newer machines. SW has outgrown the 1 gig in each machine and so we have devised a plan to upgrade all of our machines to 2 gigs without spending the outragous amount it would require to upgrade Rambus machines. (3 rdram machines to two gigs is about $3200) We are going to swap machines with people who have newer ddr/ddr2 and upgrade the Ram in those boxes while leaveing the old Dells alone.

My question is this. What problems would there be in swaping the video card and hard drive between two machines?

Clem
ME
SW/PDM 06 1.0

 

[SBaugh]

Other then a possbile different driver between video cards per station, nothing.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[BSMECAD]

Hi Clem,

1. I do not believe changing the video card would present any problem provided you are using a video card tested by Solidworks on their website. I have seen display problems with non approved video cards such as clipping plane problems or text not displaying correctly in screen.

2. I imagine swapping the hard drives may present a hardware compatibilty problem although I am not really certain about this since I never have tried this myself.
Probably best to just reinstall the Solidworks where necessary on required target hard drive rather than swapping. Keep in mind may older hard drives ran at 5400RPM while newer had drives should preform much faster.

 

[DonSund]

Your best bet is to backup, reformat, reinstall windows, applications, restore data when you change out hard drives. It's usually a good idea to do so even if you are switching out users. Your main problem will be that the motherboard drivers will be all different between the rambus machines and the newer machines. You will be lucky if they even boot.

If you are not talking about a boot drive and just additional drives in the systems, then it should not be much of an issue unless you have applicaions installed on them. If so, then application reinstallation would be necessary in most cases. This is because most windows programs put stuff in the registry and if you move the program without reinstallation the registry entries that the program is looking for would not be there.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You should have no problem with the video card.

I concur with DonSund ... you definitely will not be able to just install the HDD & boot up. You could however add the HDD as a slave to a HDD with its own OS & apps.


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