Hello All,
This will be my first post, even though I have been reading various posts here for some time.
Hopefully I'm in the correct area of the forum...
I've been running various versions of Soildworks (2007 - 2011) on a Toshiba Sattelite x205-SLi, 32-bit XP Pro / Vista Home and Windows 7 (individually) Core2 DUO processor, 4GB RAM and dual nVidia GeForce 8600M cards. Except for not being able to use RealView Graphics, the laptop worked PERFECTLY on the OS's, through SW 2009.
About a 14 months ago, I started using Win7 exclusively with an install of SW2009. Everything was great until I installed 2010... and it has only gotten worse with 2011.
In 2010, SW would start fine, but the program would crash when I tried to open a file or start a new part. The program would hang for about 10 seconds, crash and the program would restart. I would then have no problems until I started a new session of Solidworks, usually the next day or later.
Running 2011 has proved to be even MORE of a problem. I did a remove of 2010 and install of 2011 with the downloaded updates from SW. The problem reared its ugly head on the 2nd or 3rd restart of SW, but this time, the crash would repeat itself over and over, preventing the abilityto open any files.
I uninstalled the software and used a registry-cleaner tool, and reinstalled 2011 to a fresh directory. Thinking it might be a conflict with Windows Explorer, I did not install Solidworks Explorer or the PDM product. The program worked fine for one or two sessions-- then the problem came back. Crash with "open file" and repeated crashes for 3 or 4 restart attempts. I found that if the "send a report to Solidworks" dialog box popped up with the option to restart the program-- it would run fine. Until the next "new" session of SW.
Running the Rx program gives ALL green checkmarks except for the video card (expected), but c'mon.... its an nvidia card and I never had any issues before 2010!
I know every is going to say to contact my VAR, but this is a "home install" using one of our corporate seats on my personal laptop.
The video cards can't be upgraded (believe me, I've checked) and my only other option is a newer business class workstation, which most of you probably know isn't cheap!
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this type of crash or if it is limited to me!
Thanks in advance for your response....
Regards,
Tim Zollers
This will be my first post, even though I have been reading various posts here for some time.
Hopefully I'm in the correct area of the forum...
I've been running various versions of Soildworks (2007 - 2011) on a Toshiba Sattelite x205-SLi, 32-bit XP Pro / Vista Home and Windows 7 (individually) Core2 DUO processor, 4GB RAM and dual nVidia GeForce 8600M cards. Except for not being able to use RealView Graphics, the laptop worked PERFECTLY on the OS's, through SW 2009.
About a 14 months ago, I started using Win7 exclusively with an install of SW2009. Everything was great until I installed 2010... and it has only gotten worse with 2011.
In 2010, SW would start fine, but the program would crash when I tried to open a file or start a new part. The program would hang for about 10 seconds, crash and the program would restart. I would then have no problems until I started a new session of Solidworks, usually the next day or later.
Running 2011 has proved to be even MORE of a problem. I did a remove of 2010 and install of 2011 with the downloaded updates from SW. The problem reared its ugly head on the 2nd or 3rd restart of SW, but this time, the crash would repeat itself over and over, preventing the abilityto open any files.
I uninstalled the software and used a registry-cleaner tool, and reinstalled 2011 to a fresh directory. Thinking it might be a conflict with Windows Explorer, I did not install Solidworks Explorer or the PDM product. The program worked fine for one or two sessions-- then the problem came back. Crash with "open file" and repeated crashes for 3 or 4 restart attempts. I found that if the "send a report to Solidworks" dialog box popped up with the option to restart the program-- it would run fine. Until the next "new" session of SW.
Running the Rx program gives ALL green checkmarks except for the video card (expected), but c'mon.... its an nvidia card and I never had any issues before 2010!
I know every is going to say to contact my VAR, but this is a "home install" using one of our corporate seats on my personal laptop.
The video cards can't be upgraded (believe me, I've checked) and my only other option is a newer business class workstation, which most of you probably know isn't cheap!
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this type of crash or if it is limited to me!
Thanks in advance for your response....
Regards,
Tim Zollers