M90 – The last installment…maybe

Ok, so I’ve had the M90 for almost a month now and figured I’d let you know how things were with it. I’m still really liking it, in spite of what happened today. I definitely think it was worth the money that was spent. I’ve had a couple of crashes, but nothing I could attribute to the laptop…until today. I crashed it 4 times this morning trying to create an AVI from a 42 second animation I’d created. Maybe it was the 15 frames per second or maybe it was the key frame every second…I don’t know. All I know is that I’d get an error message about lack of memory so I’d kill everything I possibly could, hit ‘retry’ and BAM! SolidWorks has terminated. I guess 2 gigs or RAM isn’t enough…?

I did, finally, get the AVI to work after enabling the /3GB and easing up on my settings. Part of me wants it to be a SolidWorks issue but, somehow, I think I should have opted for the $2400 upgrade to 4 gigs or RAM…not.

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October 19, 2006 · Posted in Hardware Review

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Ørjan

Hi! I have the same laptop. And ive got the same problem. At first i thought i was my ram, but now i get the problem even when i only have Adobe Photoshop open even just a simple folder. 2gb of ram should be enough to open a folder :p But i've done some googling, and found this forum that discussed the problem, only its on a m70:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pw_bios&message.id;=1406
Hope it helps :-)
Jeff Mirisola

Thanks for the info, Rob. That makes me feel better about the M90. Do you think it's strictly SW2007?
rob rodriguez

Hi Jeff,
I've heard of this issue many times over tha last couple of weeks at a few different newsgroups on different machines. This would lead me to believe your problem may be more attributale to software than hardware?

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