PowerBI Keeps Crashing

[Nikesh Valji]

Hi everyone,

Just recently bought a new computer with 16gb RAM and 500gb SSD.

I also managed to purchase Office 2013 pro plus (32-bit version). I use PowerBI so I added the necessary COM add-ins such as PowerView, PowerPivot and PowerQuery.

However I am now finding that Excel seems to crash virtually every 5 minutes! Every time I add a few (very simple) tables to the data model and launch PowerView, Excel becomes painfully slow and keeps crashing! This is becoming highly annoying and I am not sure what to do to resolve.

I have already been to the MS website to download bug-fixes however to no avail!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Nikesh

 

[Hui]

You may want to check that the Power X? components are 32 bit compatible
If it is a New PC, I would have recommended installing Excel 64 Bit especially if using the Power X series of tools

 

[Nikesh Valji]

Hi Hui,

I managed to uninstall the 32-bit and re-installed the 64-bit version and it seemed to work fine.

Thanks so much!

Nikesh

 

[dan_l]

I had this happen to me when I was running Office from a vbox. For whatever reason, it just "went away" one day and now everything is fine