I've had a similar problem crashing Step7 when downloading the station into my PG with Step7 5.6, using MPI.
I had an older Notebook with Step7 5.5 available, which did the job successfully. After downloading the project with this device, I was able to open the project on my Step7 v5.6 Notebook which failed before, so I don't think it's a problem with the hardware catalog.
As I haven't read of someone else with this problem, I thought it was a problem only with my PG.
If I remember correctly, I was able to download the program blocks. But if I wanted to download the SDBs (System data blocks) Step7 crashed.
I had an older Notebook with Step7 5.5 available, which did the job successfully. After downloading the project with this device, I was able to open the project on my Step7 v5.6 Notebook which failed before, so I don't think it's a problem with the hardware catalog.
As I haven't read of someone else with this problem, I thought it was a problem only with my PG.
If I remember correctly, I was able to download the program blocks. But if I wanted to download the SDBs (System data blocks) Step7 crashed.