3d Studio Bugs
Mike K.
Sorry to hear about your problems with 3DS. I have a fairly loaded
Gateway and I haven't had any crashes – that is I haven't had any after I
put more memory in my machine and got all my DMAs and IRQs sorted out.
Before that, look out! I now use it for hours every session with not a
glitch.
This may sound crazy, but have you tried reseating all the chips,
simms, and boards in the system? I've fixed more flaky computers than I
can remember that way. As things heat and cool, mechanical mis-connections
can do very strange things.
Another thing I always do with problems is to temporarily reduce
the machine to its simplest state, with respect to both hardware and
software, and see if the problem is still there. If not, a little sleuthing
will then roust the culprit.
(I wish someone, PharLap, Autodesk, Yost gods, etc., would write a
system stress program which would do test out the extended memory and the
protected mode switching, etc. that goes on in 3DS, AutoCad, and AniPro.
Then we all might be able to find and destroy problems a little easier.)
Post your software and hardware configuration, as Greg Pyros
suggested – don't forget to physically look at the jumpers on every board
and recheck and list the resources for each (IRQs, I/O addresses, etc.)
JKJ
PS. One more thought. Do you know anyone close by whose copy of 3DS you
can borrow (with lock) to check out your system? There is a remote
possiblity of a problem with your disks. If possible, install to an area
of your disk which is different from where 3DS is now.