Computer Locking Up

[Henk]

I've some thing like this.

When you miss-click by selecting entities (say for a chain or surfs for an operation), normally you get a beep and message "try again". In that case Mastercam lock up. This happen only on one computer. I've found that hitting "Ctrl-Alt-Del" followed by "Esc" (+/- 10 times) unlock this situation.

 

Mill 9, 9.1, 9.1Sp2

P4 2Mhz, 512Mb Nvidia Ti4200 (Time for a new one)

[Lumpnut]

Will do Bullines.

Thanks again for the input.

Chris

[Lumpnut]

With Mcam & Solidworks open , I opened the task manager, and the performance tab CPU usage is at 100% (all of it mcam) But when I maximize the task manager to full screen the CPU usage drops down to 10%. Is this normal?

[Bullines]

Yes, that's normal with Mastercam.

 

How about available Physical Memory, System Cache Physical Memory and the Commit Charge while both Mastercam and SolidWorks are running?

[Lumpnut]

Just ran Iskanders test. No hang ups yet today.

[Lumpnut]

Physical Memory (k)

[*]total 1047552

available 742568

system cache 388500

Commit Charge (k)

[*]total 576220

limit 2523520

peak 579976

[Bullines]

That loooks reasonable. If during the slow down, you close one of the apps, does the computer return to normal again? Maybe try one time closing Mastercam and then closing SolidWorks another time.

[Lumpnut]

The computer doesn't slow down , it completely locks up. All open apps have to be ended through the task manager. At times I've even had to turn the computer off completly.

 

But all is well today so far. Has this ever happened to you?

[gcode]

This happens to me sometimes if I leave a large

SHADED MC solid model on the screen for a while

without moving the mouse or touching the keyboard

for 5 minutes or so. If I leave the model unshaded it doesn't happen

[Bullines]

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The computer doesn't slow down , it completely locks up. All open apps have to be ended through the task manager.

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Well if you can get to the Task Manager, I guesss it doesn't completely lock up, right?

 

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Has this ever happened to you?

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Has this ever not happened to anyone?

 

Just call me Johnny "Answer A Question with Another Question".

[mayday]

nu nu are you tied to a network? ours will somdays just kill out pc's. if I pull the plug and restart as work station only the systems runs like it should.

[Lumpnut]

Sounds like an issue we all have to deal with from time to time. Could be worse , Could be forced to use smurfcam

 

Chris

[Chip-pan]

Novell sever client doent play nice with some microsoft products. Had a problrm with autocad and a big memory leak. It would crash 4 times a day until we found a patch.

Microsoft server run much better

 

Chip Pan

[MIL-TFP-41]

I have run into this also on several different computers...using Win 98, 2000 & XP. Seems to happen to me when I have some sort of model rendered up in mastercam, no other programs running. What appears to happen is that a bug in the program creates some sort of memory loop...that is it keeps using all the memory till its maxed out....the it uses the HD swap file till its full, then crash. I have Analog X's program, maxmem (clears out memory occasionally) & you can see when this problems start to happen....all memory resources get used. Very frustrating problem....