i use Photoshop it results in my whole computer freezing and i have to reboot. Can somebody help me with this?!
see:
Mathias Vejerslev "Computer locks up, shuts down, or reboots while running Photoshop" 6/5/03 3:49pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/1>
just make sure it’s really locking up. right click on my computer on the desktop. go to performace> advanced and turn of restart on system fault. if it still reboots you have a hardware error – go to the faq link i posted above. if you get a blue screen error after unchecking that box, you most likely have some kind of driver error.
please give us a little more info on when exactly your system crashes. what are you doing at the time? does it restart every time or do you have to do something specific to make it crash?
dave
it just crashes when you do little things like selecting, or moving the picture. i’ll try and turn of that restart on system fault.
k. let us know what happens.
maybe i didn’t say it right though, coz the computer doesnt reboot but it just freezes and i have to turn it off manually.
tried it but the computer still crashes, i opened a file and tried to use that magic selection tool (dont know exactly what its called in english) and the computer crashed. could it maybe have something to do with my memory? i have 128 mb RAM, somebody thats too little.
coz the computer doesnt reboot but it just freezes and i have to turn it off manually.
ok… read that faq link. sounds like you have some faulty hardware.
called the manufacter of my computer, they arent really helping me, they said that i have to put the original Windows Millenium back on the computer before they will help… but then computer crashes even more, not only with Photoshop..
called the manufacter of my computer, they arent really helping me, they said that i have to put the original Windows Millenium back on the computer before they will help…
tell them ok. you did that… now what?!! 🙂
Snooze,
Did you upgrade to XP be installing it over_the_top of your existing WinME ??
If so, that’s bad news. XP MUST be installed to it’s own new folder, preferably on a freshly formatted partition and then ALL software, drivers etc. re-installing, if you want a big-free system.
Yes I upgraded it over Millenium, but then my boyfriend did it again and he says Millenium is now gone. So i want to try to do it again, but i don’t know how to do that while maintaining XP. Coz when we did it the last time the programs where still there. Could you maybe explain how to do it?
snooze,
the process of doing a fresh install of WinXP is a little complicated and I don’t think this forum is the place for listing down the steps.
Just a few things for you to consider:
1. If your copy of WinXP is the upgrade version, you can’t do a fresh install. It has to install itself over WinME. If you don’t mind reformatting your hard disk, do a fresh install of WinME first then install WinXP (that is, upgrade WinME to WinXP.)
2. If your copy of WinXP is the full version, then as suggested in this forum posts, you might consider doing a fresh install of WinXP ONLY. That means reformatting your hard disk to get it ready for WinXP.
3. Be aware that reformatting your hard disk will WIPE OUT ALL YOUR DATA. It’s like having a new hard disk with nothing on it.
If I were you, I’d ask a friend whose more knowledgeable about computers (no offense) and ask him or her to do a fresh install of either operating systems.
Good luck!
If I were you, I’d ask a friend whose more knowledgeable about computers (no offense)..
Yep.
Especially since you CAN do a clean install of upgrade versions of XP, as long as you have previous qualifying media.
You do NOT have to "install over ME".
(no offense) 🙂
Mac
cool thanx guys! you’re the only people who have been willing to help! i’ll go look for someone who knows how to do a clean install with XP. it seems everybody knows about computers, except when i tell them about mine…
Thank you! 🙂
actually it’s pretty easy. just backup (save) all your data somewhere before you do it because it’s going to wipe your system. then pop the disk in, restart and it should walk you though it. but i agree with everyone else, it’s better if you have someone knowlegable around to hold your hand.
BUT… since we were going on about your system completely locking up under xp (over ME or not) you still may not solve your problem…
good luck.
dave
I did it! well, made a clean setup with XP, i’m now reinstalling Photoshop. I also put in some more memory and gonna try to devide the hard disk. I hope it’ll work now! 🙂
ok, so i did everything, installed Photoshop again and devided the hard disk and put the scrachdisk on the new disk. But it still crashes when i try to use Photoshop… 🙁
I had the same problem on my computer. I fixed it by insalling an old 8 GB hard drive that I just use as a scratch disk. I have had no problems since.
John Hart
Photographic Memory
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Hi
I have Photoshop 7 installed on my computer, i use windows XP. Recently
i’ve been having problems working with Photoshop, when you start it says that theres problems with Photoshop and Windows being on the scratchdisk and that they are on the same volume. When i use Photoshop it results in my whole computer freezing and i have to reboot. Can somebody help me with this?! I don’t know what to do..
Snoozze
