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Why does Acad Crash every 3-4days? xp acad 2002

I have a p4 computer, 1gig ram, 200gig hd. For some reason on my old system win2000 and on my new system xp, AutoCAD crashes every 3-4days. I admit I have many programs (MS Outlook, IE, Excel, notepad, and a few other little programs) open at the same time, but I do have 1gig ram. I also, typically have 4 or more drawings open at the same time. If I reboot every couple of days then no problem, but I often forget to do that. Even though I have autosave on, it is still kind of annoying. Any idea why that happens. Thanks.

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lbbss
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Usually happens when running certain background utilities, such as a virus checker (especially Norton). Try disabling them one at a time until the problem goes away. ___

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Paul Turvill

thank for the reply. Unfortunately I don't have the luxury to turn off Norton on my work computer.

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lbbss

Do you leave AutoCAD open always? Try shutting ACAD down at the end of each day. I think ACAD tends to 'hog' memory and when it runs out it crashes. I notice that my version of ACAD2002 on my XPpro machine gets slow after a while. Sometimes it crashes too. I just close ACAD and reopen and it works fast again. Garth.

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G. Willis

Agreed. Also type status on the autocad command line and be sure you have some free physical memory left or things could get unstable and slow.

-S

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SimonLW

Not enough RAM is not my problem. As I said I have 1Gig Ram.

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Agreed. Also type status on the autocad command line and be sure you have some free physical memory left or things could get unstable and slow.

-S

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lbbss

you could also try running diagnostic programs on your motherboard, processor and ram to see that there are no hardware faults.

Garth.

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G. Willis

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