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Saran - 11 Jul 2005 02:48 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am running a pspice simulation that is pretty lengthy. It was running
fine yesterday and today when I checked it the system had somehow
rebooted (maybe someone did it or somehow)..now when I invoke pspice to
run my simulation, it gives me a message saying that - unable to open
application "PROBE.EXE". I am not sure how to solve it and it also
gives me an error saying that - cannot open pspice ad.

I have tried finding solution in the net but could not settle down on
anything that seems to be directly or indirectly related to this
problem.

Can anyone please help? it is absolutely essential for me to run this
simulation and my 2 days worth of simulation has already been
terminated without completion.

Regards,
Saran

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Jim Thompson - 11 Jul 2005 05:07 GMT

>Hi everyone,
>
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>Regards,
>Saran

Delete all files except the .sch and start over :-(

...Jim Thompson

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Saran - 11 Jul 2005 14:01 GMT

Thanks a lot Jim. I have managed to get pspice working. What I did was
a brute hack for the time being. I searched the files probe.exe and
pspicead.exe and manually started them before running the simulation.
This works for the time being. I think pspice a/d and probe.exe were
locked out someway. I will probably sit and trace the way it starts
when I get time and that should tell me what file setting corresponds
to locking itself out.

Once again thanks for the response.

Cheers,
Saran

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Jim Thompson - 11 Jul 2005 15:22 GMT

>Thanks a lot Jim. I have managed to get pspice working. What I did was
>a brute hack for the time being. I searched the files probe.exe and
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>Cheers,
>Saran

What version of PSpice?

Which schematic entry are you using?

...Jim Thompson

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Saran - 12 Jul 2005 16:01 GMT

I am using orcad 9.2.

Thanks,
Saran

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Jim Thompson - 12 Jul 2005 16:04 GMT

>I am using orcad 9.2.
>
>Thanks,
>Saran

Schematic entry? Capture? Or PSpice Schematics?

...Jim Thompson

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Saran - 12 Jul 2005 17:54 GMT

I am using Pspice schematics for my schematics. Pspice A/D for the
simulation.

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Jim Thompson - 12 Jul 2005 18:04 GMT

>I am using Pspice schematics for my schematics. Pspice A/D for the
>simulation.

I've run into peculiar lockups that I cured by netlisting, then delete
ALS file, then run simulation.

Totally cured by _select_all_ from the schematic and pasting into a
new one.

Never quite sure why this happens, but I've haven't had the problem in
v10.3.

Although some software dork changed "new line" in the symbol editor so
that spaces are now required before and after "\n", otherwise PSpice
reports an undefined error. Screwed up a large number of my custom
symbols :-(

...Jim Thompson

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

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Saran - 16 Jul 2005 16:29 GMT

Hey Jim,

Yeah, these things do bug me too. Logically speaking, these problems
does not make sense to me...

Saran

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