Why am I getting some weird colored dashed lines and stripes when creating layered pages?

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greg_fitzloff
Sep 22, 2006
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I have windows xp. Have Photoshop cs2, using a athalon based computer with 3gigs of ram.

When I am creating a layered document with 10-12 pictures on it, I am getting some funky colored dashes that form rectangles and squares, stripes & bands of stripes at random places on the new document. Any new photo I drag onto the new document has this dashed banding on it. Or If I change or do anything to an existing jpeg before i drag it to the new document it has these striped blocks. And also it does it on text layers.

I try to save this type of document as a psd document.

When I open other psd documents I get these dashes, stripes and dashed filled squares and rectangles also.

I have uninstalled cs2 and reinstalled cs2 and I still get these funky things appearing on the psd files.

When I try to print this document I get an error from my printer.

If anyone knows how to fix this please Help?

My email is:

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greg_fitzloff
Sep 22, 2006
I have a photo of what it is doing if anyone would like to see it.

Please email me and ill send it to you.

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John Joslin
Sep 22, 2006
Those lines are designed to help alignment.

Turn them off with View > Show > Smart guides.
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greg_fitzloff
Sep 22, 2006
They aren’t the guides. These dashed blocks appear randomly on the image or document that I’m working on.
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Chris_Cox
Sep 22, 2006
That sounds a lot like bad RAM or a bad disk.

If the bad lines disappear when you zoom in and out, then it could also be your video card.
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dave_milbut
Sep 23, 2006
an older and fuller message from chris:

<dave>you have some bad hardware somewhere in your system… from chris (ps engineer):</dave>

Chris Cox – 01:17pm Feb 7, 2003 Pacific (#7 of 15)

If you zoom in and they go away, it’s probably the video card.

If you zoom in and out and they change, it’s probably bad RAM.

If the image looks fine, you save it, then reload it and it’s corrupted – then it’s probably the hard disk.

that one wins the prize for most info in the fewest lines on this forum EVAH! 🙂
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Scott_E._Taylor
Oct 17, 2006
Updating or reinstalling your video card driver should get rid of this….for now. My experience has been that the lines will return at some point, necessitating a new update/reinstallation of your driver. Whether this is a hardware problem or a Photoshop problem I don’t know. What I do know is that it ONLY affects Photoshop.
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Scott_E._Taylor
Oct 17, 2006
I forgot to mention that Real Player may have something to do with it since it usally happens only if Real Player is running in the background.
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greg_fitzloff
Oct 18, 2006
I solved it. It was Itunes update 7.0. We turned it off and everything worked fine. Then a few days later it was updated again to 7.0.1 and it is fine now with itunes playing.

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