MCX-2 times out

[dgaston]

Hi guys,

 

I just loaded MCX-2 recently and noticed a problem. If the program sits idle for a period of time, I have a mssg on the screen that say " the sim has become disabled and the program will shut down" I get one chance to save the file.

 

Is there a setting for a timer or something like that? I am on a net-hasp, and I am thinking maybe there is a timer on network licenses to release the license after being idle for some time, so other users have access to it?

 

Any ideas are welcome.

 

Thanks,

 

D.

[Guest]

Oh man, been there done that.

 

The ONLY thing that fixed this for me was a reinstall of windows.

 

Something related to the HASP driver, windows side, got toasted, until I reinstalled I had this issue, since my reinstall it has not happened once.

 

hth

 

 

EDIT:

Sorry, I just reread, you're on a nethasp, I was on a USB sim, different problem likely

[dgaston]

John, nethasp or not, you are scaring me !

Hopefully someone else pipes in with more suggestions.

 

Thanks !

 

D.

[Surface]

I know from experience, installing an older version of MC after installing a newer version can cause a similar looking problem.

[Thad]

Try a search, D. We had this problem and I replied to another thread a while back, but I don't remember how we fixed it. It might've been a defective hasp.

 

Thad

[edmBosto]

dgaston,

 

I have the privilage of telling our IT guy when bad things happen. We are on a net hasp and have no problem. AT one time we could install mastercam but since there were so many users of MCAM here that changed. I'm lucky since I have administrator privilages.

I was just wondering if you have the same luxary of an IT dude and if you could take advantage of him/her.

[dgaston]

Thad et all,

did find some old posts regarding this issue, but there appeared to be no real solution. I was surprised to see there were no responses from the Mastercam Folks that I could see.

 

I did notice some repetition on comments regarding installing an earlier version of MC after X2 was installed.

 

So far today, no disconnected sims, so I will keep my fingers crossed. If it happens again I will try running the X2 CD and do a "repair" and see if that does it.

 

D.