Problem starting Photoshop

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SKrasnosht
Feb 22, 2004
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I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck.  I even tried to close other running processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Thanks.
SKrasnosht
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john
Feb 22, 2004
In article ,
(SKrasnosht) wrote:

I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck.
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Duncan Donald
Feb 22, 2004
RAM dies. Replace the RAM.
Photoshop does it’s own check of RAM when loading. I am pretty suere this is more comprehensive than the RAM ‘count’ that occurs during boot. Douglas

"SKrasnosht" wrote in message
I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck. I even tried to close other running
processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Thanks.
SKrasnosht
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Donald Link
Feb 22, 2004
Geez what is going on. Slow machine, outdated operating system, lousy ram amount, and trying to install CS which needs 32 bit operating system to run properly. Spend $400 to $600 dollars on one program and can not spend at least that amount on a whole machine.

On 21 Feb 2004 19:29:27 -0800, (SKrasnosht) wrote:

I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck.  I even tried to close other running processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Thanks.
SKrasnosht
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mytbob
Feb 22, 2004
SKrasnosht wrote:

I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck. I even tried to close other running processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Thanks.
SKrasnosht

Try installing another 128 MB of RAM. That’s your cheapest potential fix. Also install Photoshop’s Scratch Disk on your 30 GB H.D. Dedicate about 5GB on its own partition if possible.
Bob Williams
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SKrasnosht
Feb 22, 2004
Thanks for the advice. Yeah, adding another 128 MB of RAM is an option, but don’t want to invest any more into this machine. Besides, Photoshop ran on this PC without any problems up until now. I tried defraging (use Norton), but that did not help. Any other suggestions are appreciated. The larger drive (30 GB) is a separate drive with more space, but when I installed PS got the same error.

"Robert E. Williams" …
SKrasnosht wrote:

I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck. I even tried to close other running processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Thanks.
SKrasnosht

Try installing another 128 MB of RAM. That’s your cheapest potential fix. Also install Photoshop’s Scratch Disk on your 30 GB H.D. Dedicate about 5GB on its own partition if possible.
Bob Williams
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SKrasnosht
Feb 22, 2004
No, I have not added any plug-ins (except downloaded MSN Messanger a little while back). But PS worked ok since then. I am not editing large files in PS as I cannot even open the program to do anything. Not sure what you mean by "Be sure your scratch discs point to both startup and that ‘other’ disc."
The larger drive is a separate disk on the PC. I’ve defragged (use Norton) but did not help. All other programs work well…even large ones: ie., Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc.
Could it be some Windows issue?

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In article ,
(SKrasnosht) wrote:

I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck.  I even tried to close other running processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98, and two hard drives. One is 20 GB, 14 GB full, and second drive is 30 GB and is 5 GB used . System resources are 60% free. I tried installing PS on either drive with no luck. I know the Photoshop disk/program is okay because I installed it on a laptop machine and it runs good. No changes were made to my PC to cause Photoshop problems.

Are you trying to edit larger files than usual? Have you added more plugins?
Be sure your scratch discs point to both startup and that ‘other’ disc. (Is that other disc by chance just a partition of the startup disc, or is it a separate drive, spindle?) Try defragging the startup disc. W98 with only 128mb and small drives is an impoverished setup today, but it should work… on smaller files with plenty of free disc space.
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john
Feb 22, 2004
In article ,
(SKrasnosht) wrote:

No, I have not added any plug-ins (except downloaded MSN Messanger a little while back). But PS worked ok since then. I am not editing large files in PS as I cannot even open the program to do anything. Not sure what you mean by "Be sure your scratch discs point to both startup and that ‘other’ disc."

Under preferences you can set the drives that PS uses as scratch devices. Set one to the startup and the other to the other drive. Preferences is your friend.
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Nicholas Sherlock
Feb 22, 2004
SKrasnosht wrote:
I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck. I even tried to close other running
processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98

Photoshop isn’t supposed to run on Windows 98, is it? If it isn’t, then you may be running into Windows 98’s resources limits, limit on filesize of applications, or limit of resources in a single application.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
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Charley
Feb 23, 2004
The 128 meg of RAM is most likely your problem. Go get some more. It’s cheap these days. Another 256 meg would be the minimum that I would consider, much more if you can afford it and if your system will hold it. Windows 98 needs most of 64 meg just to load by itself. Add Photoshop and a photo and you are sure to run out of the 128 that you have. If you were running Photoshop before with no problems then you must have installed another program that’s also loading into memory and running in the background. Even if you had been running Photoshop before, you couldn’t have been opening a very large photo or you would have had problems.

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Charley

"Nicholas Sherlock" wrote in message
SKrasnosht wrote:
I have been running Photoshop v. 7.0 problem free on my PC until recently. Now I am getting a "not enough RAM to load program" message and cannot run Photoshop. I tried reinstalling the program several times, but no luck. I even tried to close other running
processes/programs via msconfig and closed most of the stuff running, and deleted other programs — no luck again. My PC is a P3 450, 128 MB RAM, running Windows 98

Photoshop isn’t supposed to run on Windows 98, is it? If it isn’t, then
you
may be running into Windows 98’s resources limits, limit on filesize of applications, or limit of resources in a single application.
Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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