topic Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key in Installation & update

Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:37:25 GMT

I downloaded ACAD10 demo yesterday at the office to prompt my boss to upgrade she liked it. BUT! Now, this morning my ACAD 9 is refusing the valid protection key. I can't work. The boss does not like that.

What gives?

Do I need to dump ACAD 10?

PC XP

Thanks

Tad

Re: Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key

TomWaltz — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:02:04 GMT

I want to say that there was a problem with the WIBU key driver that's installed as part of Archicad 10, but I cannot say for sure. You might want to search the forum to see if you can find it (or someone else might post what the fix was)

Re: Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:23:54 GMT

I had a feeling it had something to do with that but I must say I have no idea what this WIBU driver thing is. We are actually ordering ACAD 10 as we speak but would like to get some work done. Should I dump all ACAD 10 items now or just the WIBU folder?

Any ideas are apprecitated

Thanks

Re: Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key

TomWaltz — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:38:01 GMT

You will actually need to reinstall the WIBU driver. Deleting the new files will not make any difference.

The newer driver runs both AC9 and AC10... I never seen the problem myself, so I really cannot say exactly how to fix it. Hopefully someone else who has will have some more solid advice!

The drivers can be downloaded at
http://wibu.com/download_user.php?lang=en

Re: Downloading ACAD10 Demo nixes valid ACAD9 Protection key

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:47:17 GMT

My computer said there was new hardware to install (the key driver) so clicking that I guess re-installed the existing key that I have as if it was brand new.

And ACAD 9 started working again.

Don't really understand how the PC world works since MAC rarely gets me as flumoxed, but I just hit continue or next on these dialogue boxes and most of the time that seems to work.

Thanks for the help.

Tad