Solidworks 2008 SP4 background turns black

Discussion created by Jan-Marais Sans on Feb 12, 2009
Latest reply on Jan 25, 2010 by Anthony Jones

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While working on Solidworks 2008, my background turn black suddenly, the drawing still remains unchanged, even when i'm busy working on the model itself aswell, the model keeps it's colours but the background just turns black for no reason.

After a few minutes it causes my whole Workstation to freez up, so much that not even the mouse or keybaord responds.

What could be wrong

Dell Precision 490
I'm running Windows XP Pro (32BIT) updated to SP3
Solidworks 2008 (SP4)
4Gig RAM
ATI Fire GL V7350 (used latest solidworks reccomended drivers)

can anybody please shine a light on my problem.

Thanks in advance

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Paul Lemke Feb 12, 2009 2:13 PM
This seems to be an ati videocard problem. I have an Ati at home and I have seen this while doing side projects. The way I get rid of it at home is to do a ctrl-b rebuild and it seems to go away. It is annoying as hell and it has not crashed my system as of yet.

could you post a screen shot so we know it is not this here
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Anthony Jones Jan 25, 2010 9:53 AM
Hi Jan,

Did you ever get a resolution to this problem?

I have also seen this with the ATI V7350 cards. The drawing/model view would either go black or you'd see the windows desktop in the model view window!

It would be interesting to know if there was a resolution because I always found the SWX certified drivers made this problem occur more often than those of a lower version.

Anthony
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