Photoshop 7.0.1

usually rebooting is a sign of a hardware problem. check to see if it’s really rebooting or throwing a blue screen and rebooting by going into my computer> properties> advanced> startup & recovery and uncheck "automatically restart". if it still reboots, you have something wrong hardware wise, usually ram, cpu, mobo related. if it goes to a blue screen error, you probably have a bad driver somewhere.

Thanks for your reply.

I’m absolutely sure it doesn’t show any BSOD, but i don’t think it is due to an hardware problem, because it’s the only software that makes the computer rebooting (even softwares and games that uses a lot of CPU, RAM or GPU does’t makes it rebooting).

because it’s the only software that makes the computer rebooting

software doesn’t make a modern operating system reboot. xp and vista are "process isolated" which means that when a process (application) goes down, it can’t take the rest down with it. something photoshop is doing is exposing a hardware problem you have. other apps may not hit that problem, or hit it in the same way, but PS does.

my last upgrade was due to something similar where only ps made the system reboot. i’ve since reused that old ram and the cpu in my daughter’s system, which leads me to believe there was a fault somewhere on the mobo (after about 4 years of use).

FAQ on the subject by Photoshop engineer Chris Cox:

"Computer locks up, shuts down, or reboots while running Photoshop" <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.ef47fb1/2>

Ok thanks you two for your help.

So the only solution for me is replacing RAM ? (i’m on a laptop)

that’s not what i said… 🙂

Lol, so what could be the solution please ?

new laptop? warranty service? replacing parts in a laptop is a harder thing to do than in a desktop. like i said, and chris, in the FAQ. it’s usually one of ram, cpu or motherboard. you usually can’t tell until you start swapping parts out. and for the expense of that, you can probably get a much better system brand new.

In reading reviews at various sites, I see a lot of critique of 7 as adding very little and being very slow, as, apparently, was 6. As a new user, the issue of how much 7 added is irrlevant of course. I will have 3GB of RAM so that is probably as good as I can go on laptop. I can pick up 5 a lot cheaper than 6 ($60) which compares to $80 for 7. The question is the incremental improvement. Whch way to go? 5 (faster?), 6, or 7. Any thoughts are appreciated.

Len you’re lost. This is the Photoshop forum – we don’t do Elements but here are Elements forums:

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