Gary, A couple years back, we had one machine that had ramdom crashes in Allegro. It turned out to be a memory stick. We were able to detect the bad memory location by using a memory dignostic progrm that ran several bit pattens tests. You can download a free copy of MemTest+ v2.01 from: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso The DOS iso zip file will create a self booting floppy disk. Regards, Mike Finczak CopperCAD Design www.CopperCAD.com 905-488-8958 ________________________________ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Macindoe, Gary Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 5:26 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Kicks me out! Hey Tony, Sorry, it's 15.5.1 on Windows XP Pro. No, it's not necessarily repeatable. I started a spin on a design: save as to new rev, import Logic, went to do a Show Element on a component, then BAM!! I had it happen recently on a different board, but hadn't seen it happen before that in quite a while. Thanks! Gary Gary E. MacIndoe PCB Design Engineer Fort Collins, Colorado amd.com gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx ________________________________ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cosentino, Tony Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:41 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Kicks me out! Gary, What version of the software are you running on? and is the application error repeatable? Meaning can you replay your design and get it to fail again running the exact same commands. I normally do this by converting my .jrl to a .scr and replay it. If I can get it to crash again using the exact same commands then I send the database along with the script back to Cadence. Tony Cosentino ________________________________ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Macindoe, Gary Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:17 PM To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Kicks me out! Hey guys, This ugly situation has been happening more frequently lately. The window below pops up, then hands you the gun to put to you head! Anyone know what the cause is? Gary Gary E. MacIndoe PCB Design Engineer Fort Collins, Colorado amd.com gary.macindoe@xxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------