Autodesk Solution for AutoCAD Splash Screen Error

Autodesk Services & Support - AutoCAD splash screen starts up and then closes

Issue
When running the software, it becomes unresponsive and freezes your computer. When you restart the computer and you try to restart AutoCAD, the splash screen starts up and then closes down with no apparent error message.

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Applies to:
AutoCAD 2011
AutoCAD 2010
AutoCAD Architecture 2011
AutoCAD Architecture 2010
AutoCAD Civil 2011
AutoCAD Civil 2010
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010
AutoCAD Electrical 2011
AutoCAD Electrical 2010
AutoCAD Map 3D 2011
AutoCAD Map 3D 2010
AutoCAD Mechanical 2011
AutoCAD Mechanical 2010
AutoCAD MEP 2011
AutoCAD MEP 2010
AutoCAD Raster Design 2011
AutoCAD Raster Design 2010
AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2011
AutoCAD Structural Detailing 2010

AutoCAD Survey: Upgrade/Migration Process, Tools and Results

AutoCAD Users: want to share your experience and opinions? Our friends at the AutoCAD Product Design&Usability Group are seeking input...

Goal
To gain the most complete understanding about problems and requests AutoCAD users may have while migrating their settings and customization from a previous release of AutoCAD.

Who Should Participate?
Autodesk is looking for individual contributors or CAD managers with small number of seats (less than 5- either standalone or multi-seat standalone) with unsatisfying experience using Migration tool to migrate settings from a previous version of AutoCAD.

How the Study will be Conducted?
About 1 hour interview session with participants (remotely) to discuss experience with migration, results expected, outcome.

When?
Research will occur between May 27 and June 2, 2010.

How To Sign Up?
Please submit qualification data and indicate your availability here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MigrationSignUp

Please contact elena.fadeeva@autodesk.com if you have any questions.

Thanks for your help!

AutoCAD Product Design&Usability Group
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Autodesk Solution for Blue Screen on Start-up

Autodesk Services & Support - Blue Screen on Startup when using Nvidia Graphics Card Version 197.85

Issue
You may experience a 'blue screen of death' crash when starting a machine when the 3GB switch is enabled on a Windows XP 32 bit operating system using the NVidia graphics card driver version 197.85

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Applies to:
AutoCAD 2011
AutoCAD Architecture 2011
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011
AutoCAD Map 3D 2011
AutoCAD Mechanical 2011
Autodesk 3ds Max 2011
Autodesk Mayas 2011
Autodesk Moldflow Adviser Advanced 2011
Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2011
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011
Autodesk Revit MEP 2011
Autodesk Revit Structure 2011

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