XP sp2 and dongle's

Hi folks
Does anyone else have a problem with the parallel dongle not being
recognised under Win XP sp2? Solidworks came up as being blocked, so I
unblocked that and it now pops up a window with "A problem was encountered
accessing the proper security device. The device may be missing or have
invalid information. The application will be terminated immediately".
I'm assuming that I need to unblock whatever programme looks for the
security dongle or something similar - any help gratefully received.
Win XP sp2, Solidworks 2004 SP1

Thanks
Deri

 

SolidWorks will support Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2 as of SolidWorks
2004 SP5 and SolidWorks 2005 SP1. It is not recommended that you update
to this Windows service pack until the indicated SolidWorks service
packs.

 

SolidWorks sent out the following bulletin:

8/27/04 Bulletin - Support for Win XP Pro SP2

SolidWorks will support Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2 as of SolidWorks
2004 SP5 and SolidWorks 2005 SP1. It is not recommended that you
update to this Windows service pack until the indicated SolidWorks
service packs.


So you should have not even installed XP SP2 YET!

 

Hi Deri,

Running SolidWorks 2004 SP3 and Windows XP Pro SP2 with the dreaded dongle
with no problems.

A long time back I did solve a dongle problem with changing the settings in
the BIOS for the parallel port. Sorry I cant quite remember the details but
it was something like changing Bi-directional to ECP+EPP.

Regards Simon

 

Could help to uninstall / reinstall the hasp drivers:

Locate hinstall.exe ( here : C:\Program Files\SolidWorks
2004\setup\i386\hinstall.exe)

Run:

hinstall -r
hinstall -i


Once I had the problem on one machine, identical to the others, and it
solved it. I put it in a batch.

 

SW doesn't need a dongle, at least no it the U.S. However, a lot of
Solution Partner products do need a dongle. I am one of them. The
fixes SW does in SP5 will not necessarily fix this problem. And what
about those still using SW2003?

 

Hello,

I've got the same problem installing SolidWorks 2004 on Windows Xp Pro
sp1.
I didn't understand it was a problem of dongle, cause you don't need a
dongle to run Solidworks.

So, what to do ? Is there a patch somewhere ?

Thanks.

Philippe from France.

 

Vois ton revendeur.... Le dongle est nécessaire en france. Le patch est
illégal, s'il existe.

 

Locate hinstall.exe ( here : C:\Program Files\SolidWorks

doesn't work, sorry :-(
Did anyone ask a Soliworks hotline ?
They must know the problem and have a solution, no ?

Philippe from France

 

He He
It does in Britain and most of Europe I think! For some reason, we are not
to be trusted with dongle less software..... dunno why!
Thanks for the response anyway
Cheers
Deri

 

Will not work if no dongle is present

You should ask your VAR (revendeur)

Maybe get a legal copy?

Jean Marc

 

Thanks Jean Marc

Running hinstall.exe again doesn't work imediately, there is also a entry in
the boot.ini file that needs turning off, otherwise the software can't see
the HASP dongle. I have now got everything working again having followed the
comments here:
http://techboard.nemetschek.net/cgi/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=000132;p=0

Looks like the Vectorworks people are having fun as well. If you have a USB
dongle, there are updated drivers at the Aladdin site:
http://www.ealaddin.com/support/hasp/enduser.asp

I have the parallel dongle and simply using the existing hinstall version
that came with Solidworks did the trick.
Thanks again to everyone for the assistance, once I'm finished with this
project, I'll get Solidworks up to date!
Regards
Deri