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STAAD.Pro Driver Downloads [FAQ]

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Document Type: FAQ Product(s): STAAD.Pro Version(s): All Original Author: Bentley Technical Support Group

I get a message "Security Drivers are old"

This error is specific to users running STAAD.Pro on legacy licensing system like hardlocks. If you are using a SELECT XM license, you do not need these drivers. The message indicates that the installed secutiry drivers are older than what is required to run STAAD.Pro. Download the zip file securitydriver.zip from the following link. Security_Drivers Extract the contents of the zip file to the folder C:\SPro2006\Hardlock folder. ( Spro2004 for Staad.Pro 2004, Spro2005 for Staad.Pro 2005 etc. ) Double click on REIAssistant.exe within the Hardlock folder to launch the REI Application Assistant. From the top menu choose Uninstall => Uninstall License System Finally go to Install => Install License System.

My hardware lock is connected to my machine. I still get a message that no hardware lock is found.
The drivers for the lock are not installed in your machine. The drivers depend on the type of lock being used. These drivers can be downloaded from the websites of the lock vendors like Alladin Knowledge systems, Rainbow Technologies etc. For your convenience the drivers for the most commonly used lock type (HASP) is provided below. Download the driver using the link below. HASP Drivers On completion of the download, unzip the file and double click on the HASPUserSetup.exe to install the drivers.
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Ensure that you are logged in with local admin rights before installing these drivers. Please ensure that the lock is disconnected when you install the drivers. Once the driver installation is complete, put the lock back and this time it should be detected.

CDaoException - Failed to open database/ **ERROR- IN READING MEMBER PROPERTIES.CHECK DATA FORMAT CAREFULLY...
Starting with STAAD.Pro 2002, the steel and aluminum section property tables such as AISC, British, German, Japanese, etc. are supplied in the form of Microsoft Access database files. These files are compatible with Access 97. In order to read the data from these files, STAAD relies upon the presence of certain driver files on your computer. These drivers are supplied by Microsoft. If you computer has Microsoft Access, or Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.), these drivers ought to be present on your machine. The problem you encountered arises when the drivers are not present, or are older versions than what STAAD needs. Use one of the 2 solutions presented below for a remedy to the problem. 1) If you have STAAD.Pro 2003 Build 1002 or later (you can determine the release and build numbers by clicking on Help - About STAADPro), you can do the following. Exit STAAD.Pro. Make sure you are logged into your computer with administrative privileges. Under the installation folder (by default, it is spro2003), look for the subfolder "staad". In that sub-folder, you will find the file JetDatabaseDrv.exe Run that file by double-clicking on it from Windows Explorer. It will install the drivers. After the operation is complete, restart the computer, and run STAADPro again. 2) Exit STAAD.Pro. Click on the following link JetDatabaseDrv.exe to download/install the exe file. Make sure you are logged into your computer with administrative privileges, and install it. After the operation is complete, restart the computer, and run STAADPro again. In addition to installing the drivers, you also need to make sure that the folder, where the files containing the steel & aluminum sections are located, has write access. If you chose to install it in the default folder recommended by the STAAD.Pro 2003 installation program, that folder is \spro2003\staad\sections The reason for this is that when the .mdb file is opened, a temporary file with the extension .ldb has to be created in the same folder, and, without write permissions to that folder, the .ldb file cannot be created.

See Also
Product TechNotes and FAQs Structural Product TechNotes And FAQs STAAD.Pro Tutorials

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