Photoshop ME (both cs1 and cs2) cause instant reboot on vector actions

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Jun 26, 2006
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Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.

I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.

Hope someone can help. 🙂

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Friend
Jun 26, 2006
"Techs at Adobe were able to determine that the problem occured because of the chip with Hyper threading technology. There were 2 files that work with the MNX processor that apparantly didn’t work with this type of processor.

The files are called Fastcore.8bx and MMXcore.8bx located in Photoshop\plugins\extensions directory. Just change the file ext. to .old or anything instead of 8bx so the files are not loaded next time PS loads."

Hardware ?????

Whenever I hear "instant reboot" I immediately think memory chips. I’m far from a PS expert, but that’s been my experience with PCs over a couple of decades.

Most serious errors cause a program disruption and lock a PC or otherwise leave the PS running. Really dangerous memory writes can cause a reboot rather than let the system suffer file damage due to the errant memory write.

If you want to check the memory possibility, try removing 1/2 of the memory and see if it still happens. If it does, swap in the other half and try it again. It will run slow, but may provide a clue. Try various combinations of the chips.

On 26 Jun 2006 13:41:19 -0700, wrote:

Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.
I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.
Hope someone can help. 🙂
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m7mambo
Jun 26, 2006
Well,

I renamed the files, and tried using the mentioned tools and files for a few minutes and so far so good.

I have to continue working on a rather large project right now so I should probably be able to determine whether this works around the issues completely.

Thanks alot!
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noone
Jun 27, 2006
In article , m7
says…
Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.
I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.
Hope someone can help. 🙂

A few questions: what is PS "ME?" Not familiar with that designation. What amount of RAM do you have? How is it allocated to PS and to the OS? What is Scratch Disk setup/size/free?

As Don states, re-boots are usually a hardware problem and memory is a good place to start. I had a dual-processor MOB go south and got re-boots (not usually task oriented) under W2K. RAM was OK, but MOB was basically "shorting out." After hardware, then RAM allocation is a likely suspect. Are any other programs running in the background? What is their RAM allocation? Conflicts? When PS crashes, or the OS re-boots, Event Viewer should show a log of why. Open it up and take a look under Applications and System. You SHOULD have something in the log for that type of event. If not, look at what was happening just before the event. Any clues?

Good luck,
Hunt

PS almost every problem with an OS or a program will only come when you have a big project, and the closer the deadline, the more catastrophic the crash! Always happens that way.
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Pete
Jun 28, 2006
Hunt,

Instant reboots can also be caused by having a PSU of insufficient wattage to cope with the demands of your graphics card . A while ago I suffered from instant reboots whenever I attempted to render 3D models with complex shadowing in 3DStudio Max. All problems were resolved by the installation of a 500W PSU. If the problem recurs, then take a look in this direction.

Pete.

"Hunt" wrote in message
In article , m7
says…
Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.
I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.
Hope someone can help. 🙂

A few questions: what is PS "ME?" Not familiar with that designation. What amount of RAM do you have? How is it allocated to PS and to the OS? What is
Scratch Disk setup/size/free?

As Don states, re-boots are usually a hardware problem and memory is a good
place to start. I had a dual-processor MOB go south and got re-boots (not usually task oriented) under W2K. RAM was OK, but MOB was basically "shorting
out." After hardware, then RAM allocation is a likely suspect. Are any other
programs running in the background? What is their RAM allocation? Conflicts?
When PS crashes, or the OS re-boots, Event Viewer should show a log of why.
Open it up and take a look under Applications and System. You SHOULD have something in the log for that type of event. If not, look at what was happening just before the event. Any clues?

Good luck,
Hunt

PS almost every problem with an OS or a program will only come when you have a
big project, and the closer the deadline, the more catastrophic the crash! Always happens that way.

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