Memory Error - X won't run

[MLewis]

I'm getting a "The memory could not be read" error when I try to run X. The message bar in X reads "Reading Key Map File" when it crashes.

 

Any Ideas?

 

My Hardware:

IBM Z Pro dual Xeon 2.8ghz

Dual monitors

nVidia Quadro 4XGL 128 mb

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Hi,

I have the same error here?

[MLewis]

I installed X on an "identical" PC and it runs so it doesn't appear to be a hardware issue.

[MLewis]

I installed X on an "identical" PC and it runs so it doesn't appear to be a hardware issue.

[gcode]

My guess is it has something to do with

Windows permissions.

I've never had this problem, but I have Admin rights on all my machines.

Did you install as an Administrator?

Are you running as an Administrator?

[Shawn Crews]

Try what Gcode said (admin priv). Also, did you disable anti-virus during installation?

[MLewis]

I have admin rights on this machine so I don't think its permissions. This PC was recently reloaded and they may have installed the wrong Windows image. It's a desktop and it thinks its a laptop. Corporate IS is wonderful thing.

[MLewis]

I uninstalled X. Deleted Microsoft .NET Framework,

re-installed X. My .NET was version 1.0.3705

 

X Runs!

[Paul McGarr]

Deleted .NET framework? That makes me nervous because I won't be able to code and run Mastercam on the same box.

 

Can somebody out there verify that they are sucessfully running Mastercam X with .NET 1.x or Beta 2?

 

Paul

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

Mastercam X requires the current release version of the .NET framework installed in order to function correctly.

[Jeff Kemper]

Translation

"the current release version" = .NET 1.1 ????

[T.J. Boberek CNC Software]

Hi Michael --

 

I'm curious as to how you installed X without having .NET v1.1 installed on your machine. If you used the CD, it should not have allowed you to install X with .NET v1.0.3705 -- unless you browsed the CD and ran the installation directly. You really shouldn't do that, as X requires both Direct X 9.0c and .NET v1.1 to run. In fact, this error is the reason that we force the installation of .Net v1.1.

 

Thank you,

T.J. Boberek

[Paul McGarr]

Ok, I was just going to wait and see, but now I am extra curious. If .net is required and installed by mastercam, than maybe he just got lucky during the re-install of mastercam, and it was really another problem.

 

I want to reformulate my question...If I have a later (beta) release of .net framwork, will mastercam be satisfied with that? I know betas are betas, but some of us are codeing with visual studio betas that require the use of .NET 2.0 beta.

 

How many times can I say beta in one post?

 

If I have to code on a different box, I can do that. I just want to know.

 

Paul

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Hi,

My .NET is version 1.0.3705

What do i need to do?

[MLewis]

It was installed from a file server location so I guess the .NET and Direct X checks didn't happen. X does seem to be running OK? We're running Windows 2000, soon to be migrated to XP. We have X running on about 10 PCs and mine was the only one that had a problem. My machine was the only one with any development tools installed (VB6, Visual Studio .NET)

 

Currently .NET is NOT installed on any of our machines???

DirectX 9 Hotfix -KBG839643 is installed

 

Anyway, we'll start loading from the CD.

[T.J. Boberek CNC Software]

Hi Paul --

 

The Mastercam X CD will not be satisfied by Beta 2 of the .NET Framework. It will require that the .NET Framework v1.1 be installed on your system.

 

We went back and forth on this, but finally decided that as v1.1 is the current stable release, we would required its installation. Version 1.1 will co-exist peacefully with Beta 2 -- I have both on my system.

 

If you have v1.0.3705, the Mastercam X CD will detect that v1.1 is missing and require that you install it first. Version 1.1 of the Framework is included on the Mastercam X CD.

 

If you directly run the Mastercam X installation (say, from a fileserver) without going through the CD Frontend, it WILL let you install without .NET v1.1 (and without DirectX 9.0c). This may work on some machines, but in our testing, MANY machines had problems running X without .NET v1.1.

 

Thank you,

T.J. Boberek