SW 2006 Crashes whenever I try to open a second .slddrw

Any idea what might cause SW to crash when I try to open more than one
drawing at a time? It didn't used to do this. Thanks

John Kimmel

 

It might be a corrupt install that may need re-installation. Or your
template for your drawings may have a corruption that only pops up
when you open two files at a time. Or your system just doesn't have
enough physical or virtual memory to handle the files you are
opening. Or graphics card issue. Or a miriad of other things. Do
you have more details?

Matt Lorono
http://sw.fcsuper.com
http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog

 

Thanks, no other details. I was hoping someone else might have had the
same problem and knew how to solve it. It seems to work today, maybe
the computer just needed to rest overnight.

--
John


He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they
are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

 

Sometimes you just need to restart SW or reboot your machine. If you have
been working for along time or using a lot of memory, SW seems to get flaky.
If I'm not doing anything that stresses the system, I can go for weeks
without a reboot. If I'm really pushing it hard, I might have to reboot a
couple of times a day. Your mileage may vary.

Jerry

 

John:

I was having frequent crashes using SW2008. I checked my hard drive
yesterday and found that it was heavily fragmented (I mistakenly
assumed that our network admin had set up a defrag routine). After
defragmenting, so far the performance is a lot better and no crashes.
One of my colleagues told me that when you reboot an XP system,
Windows writes a ~300Mb file, and after some time you can get a
fragmented HD even if you don't store data locally.

Worth a try.

-Dave Adams-

 

How long has the OS run since it was installed...years?

Does the OS get exposed to the Internet all the time?

Do you have lots of other applications and utilities installed?

The typical crap and corruption that occurs, sadly makes an OS
reinstall somewhat necessary every 1-2 years, in order to get back to
a clean state. If you have a virgin install on a 2nd hard drive and
can "Ghost" it over to a new or known good hard drive you can save a
LOT of time.

Bo