Below are the specs of my system...everytime I put in the SW cd to install, it won't install. I basically click on "install" when the screen comes up, then the screen dissappears for about a minute...then my system locks up.
Any suggestions ?
AMD 64 Bit 3400+ w/1600 Mhz FSB AMD Approved Fan w/ Heat Sink ASUS K8N NVIDIA nForce3 250
Virus program not shut down. Drivers. CD drive Graphics card/driver ( disable the graphics card by installing the VGA driver and see if that helps)
Do you get a blue screen. If so what does it say?
Have you run SiSoft Sandra to make sure everything is alright with the system?
Have other applications installed OK? If so, maybe your SolidWorks disc is damaged. Have you tried cleaning it?
Best Regards, Devon T. Sowell
Do you have DEP Prevention turned on?
Control Panel / System / Advanced / Data Execution Prevention
I've noticed some problems with this and manually had to restrict certain programs.
Also do a general check of the system for bad ram etc.
RT
Good Morning,
I am just going to reply to everyone in this post to save time. I will have to check into the DEP Prevention thing...it is set to whatever default would be. I do not have anti-virus software even installed at this point. The disk is fine, no scratches or anything. I don't think that I even installed the nvidia graphics drivers yet...
I do have another CD drive at home, I will toss that th
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