DESIGN TABLE PROBLEMS

[sojouner]

We have a brand new p4 2.6 compaq (rhymes with crap) running xp and sw2003 (sp3) when head designer does his design tables on that comp the model works fine , the way we want it to.
then when he copies it over to our sever and I use the model and make drawings the configs that he has inserted have for some reason become corrupt.
1)we initialy thought that it was excel 97 but when we checked the model on the other machine
p3 800mhz 512 ram excel 97 sp-2 the same prob occurs . design table and configs fall over .
2)also our 2 p3 800s crash all the time when we try to manipulate those models .
3) the video cards in the p3s are 3d labs oxygen VX1 s (32meg) could these cards be causing a problem as well!!
4) our server is crap ,We are hoping to get that replaced soon( believe that when we see it.
I would appreciate any suggestions and just to let you know the job that I am doing should have taken me about a day but so far it has taken me 2 days and I'm not going to get it finished untill probably Tuesday at the earliest.
thanks for the help!!

 

[SBaugh]

Have you tried copiing to your HDD and seeing if you still have the problem? Your Network could be the problem.

What version of XP, Home or Pro?

Can you open up the DT?

Clean your Temp files out? Located under Document properties

Let me know about the questions above and then we will work from.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[sojouner]

Scott
1) we are pretty sure that it is the network that causes the majority of our problems.It is quite old it has only 1 10meg lan card feeding 3 sw machines on 100 meg cards + it is linked to about 15 other terminals some dumb and some admin machines .
also it is often accessed by our sales office in another town.
2) xp is the pro version ( ithink)
3)yes we can open up the dt when i have opened it on my comp (the design tables look different some things are just not there or suppressed when they are suposed to be resolved.)
4)temp files are cleaned out (one of the first things we did)
we also created an "I" drive on the p4 machine saved the DT to that drive and changed the reference in the model to point to that xls file (same problems)
machines are connected through a hub not the server.
the 2 p3 machines are running nt 4 sp-6 .
excel is 97 sp-2. this was also one of the first things we checked on (thanks to me reading threads on this site , thanks guys;-)>)
thanks for the reply Scott