Peter Laing
Member
I've been using RSLogix5000 v20 for several years now on win7 64 with no real problems. So it was a big surprise when I tried to open a program this morning only to have it crash, reporting a 'Fatal Error'. I suspected a bad sector on my hard drive as I had recently been doing some serious travelling and have experienced that before. Luckily I had a hard drive image from a month ago and decided to restore it. After restoring the image v20 was working again. A chkdsk /r from a Win 7 repair disk showed no problems with the drive. Next step was to download and install Windows Updates. No problem, after a reboot v20 was still working after the first round of 21 or so updates. Back to Windows Update, this time only one; reboot and run v20; bang! Fatal Error. The last update was "Windows .NET Framework 4.6.1 for Windows 7 for x64 KB3102433". I rolled back to the system restore point before that update to success... v20 is working again.
I was lucky in that this situation happened in my office and I could deal with it in a relaxed situation. I hate to think of the consequences had this happened two weeks ago when I was on a job site in Africa.
The moral of the story... Turn your windows automatic updates off, selectively install them and be ready to roll back to a previous restore point.
Oddly enough, v19 continued to work through all this.
Cheers,
Pete
I was lucky in that this situation happened in my office and I could deal with it in a relaxed situation. I hate to think of the consequences had this happened two weeks ago when I was on a job site in Africa.
The moral of the story... Turn your windows automatic updates off, selectively install them and be ready to roll back to a previous restore point.
Oddly enough, v19 continued to work through all this.
Cheers,
Pete