Trouble with MAX 8 installer

[Steve_Bennett]

I'm trying to load MAX 8 onto my system & the installer keeps locking up at the very begining after I've told it to start installing. It just sits there & never starts to install. If I go into the Windows Task manager, it tells me the installer is still running, yet nothing happens.

Any thoughts?

[de-co1]

Only information I could come up with was...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?id=6030343&linkID=5573345&siteID=123112

http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=341937

http://blogs.msdn.com/max/archive/20...14/467654.aspx

I don't know if any of it will help though.

[Steve_Bennett]

Only information I could come up with was...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?id=6030343&linkID=5573345&siteID=123112
I don't know if any of it will help though.

Thanks for the input. I thought that the link above fixed it, but it only let the extra content install. I was fixing another computer at the same time & was having trouble getting it to behave & one of the suggestions to get the software to install properly was to do a clean boot. Basically you use the msconfig utility to turn off all application not needed upon start up of your computer. I did that & it finally allowed me to install it. I think some other autodesk program was running in the background & preventing it to install.

[wboyanton]

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=9240617
Try that, if AutoDESK is using the same installer for all products. This worked for our install problems with AutoCAD 2013 MEP

[loydg]

Did you check the expiration date?

[Steve_Bennett]

Definitely expired!