Autocad help regarding startup

[weldeng]

Hello all, Im hoping someone out there can help as im at the hair pulling out of head stage

Ok so heres whats going on....Ive been useing Autocad for some time now, and actually just used not more then three days ago. But last night when I went to open it up I got the following error:

" Acad has caused an error in AC1ST15.DLL Acad will now close"

So after getting this error another ten times, I unistalled autocad, and reinstalled it and BOOM same error. SO I then went and tried deleting all the AutoCad stuff out of my registry and I unistalled it again. I reinstalled it a third time and got the same darn error message.

So i was wondering if anyone else out there has had this problem occur or maybe knows how to fix it. My final solution is going to be a full "DISK FORMAT" and start my pc from scratch, but as backing up my 2 20gig harddrives will be somewhat time comsuming Im really hoping I can get some help.

Even a comment like, "NOPE HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THAT ONE" will be help, help towards the formatting idea.


Well anyways thank you for your time.

Bill Huntington

 

[borgunit]

The Autodesk site had a few possible errors fixes for this one. This seemed the most pertinent to you. I hope it helps.


Issue

The following error occurs when starting the software:

Error in AutoCAD® software
acad.exe file is linked to missing export ac1st15.dll:?__acfreepages@@YIXPAX@Z

Error in AutoCAD LT® software
aclt.exe file is linked to missing export ac1st15.dll:?__acfreepages@@YIXPAX@Z



Solution

As a work-around, you can use either of the following methods to resolve this problem:

Edit the shortcut that starts the program and change the start in folder to:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared"


Add "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared" to the beginning of the Path statement in the Autoexec.bat file.

 

[reebtog]

I have just installed AutoCAD 2000i on Windows 2000. I am getting an error message on missing acad.exe. I cannot seem to locate this file anywhere on my machine. Has anyone else had this problem?