SW2004 crashworthiness

With our recent upgrade to 2004 we have had frequent crashing
problems...particularly with drawings and assemblies using multiple
configurations. Our VAR has
heard of no such problems...Anybody out there having trouble with 2004
crashing?

Dave

 

Did you do an upgrade over a new install?

I have seen the upgrades cause more instability than the new installation.

Regards,
Scott

 

I have had similar experiences, but only when multible configurations
was used in the same assembly.
It disapeared after opening individual sub-assemblies and just view
(activate) each configuration and then save.
It might have something to do with lightweight sub-assemblies.

Thomas Voetmann

 

Hi Dave,
we had major problems installing as an upgrade to 2001 Plus SP6, but we seem
to have solved it.
This version is the first one that needs Admistrative rights to install it,
and that was our problem.
First thing, delete all references to the old Solidworks by uninstalling,
deleting registry entries and deleting the folders, do a clean install with
your User active but with Administration rights also active, and AV
disabled. This is important as installing as Sytem Administrator and then
switching back to your User without Admin rights will crash it.
After installation you can switch your User access back to what it was.

This took a lot of figuring out, the new install would convert our solids to
the new version but would constantly crash when opening the associated
drawings.

 

I had a similar problem with one of my two installs. The first was a
complete rebuild of the os and was fine. The problem one was rebuilt
when I installed 2003. My saving grace is, two computers are indentical
in hardware, and I realised the video driver and inf update of the
mother board had been revised when I collected stuff for the rebuilding
of the one seat. I applied the new to the old and hasn't crashed since.

I'm just not sure which update did the trick?

HTH

Ron