Hi All,
I've been trying to help an outfit diagnose a Solidworks problem they have been having. For them Solidworks has been crashing on a very regular basis for about the 12 months they have been using it. We are talking 2-3 crash to desktops per day, far more regular instability inside Solidworks such as mates not solving, but a close, open and they will. It got to the point that they were resinatlling Solidworks from an Admin image once a week! Also this was happening in 2007 and
2008.I could not help them, their VAR could not help them. Everything that was offered to try and diagnose their problem they had either tried or didn't work. I ruled out solidworks as I could not get repeatability on my system. I ruled out Windows as they had tried reinstalling many times. They ruled out hardware as this has been happening on numerous machines from different manufacturers.
So what was the one thing that was common? The location of the design office. Turns out the main power supply to the building was on the other side of the wall to the computers (2x 60A breakers so nothing huge) They have since shifted the compuetrs away from the evil electrical feild and bam.. 2 weeks with no crashing!
Food for thought.. goes to show just how sensitive the average computer is to electrical interfereance and the random software problems this can cause!
Ian.