RAM Issues

[croxsons]

LukeBird said:

croxsons said:

had a look at MemCheck, but am now confused ... only found some very simple websites with no html formatting ... am I going wrong?

Is there an ISO file (or similar) that I can download and burn onto a CD?

This be what you're looking for -
http://www.memtest86.com/
click "free download" you can either run it in windows or create a bootable CD.
I've done both

done, but it does take a bit of time does it not.

Will be interesting to see what it comes up with. I am looking at taking it up upto 2Gb anyhow, so thinking that it would be best to just replace the lot with 2 1Gb sticks.

[LukeBird]

croxsons said:

LukeBird said:

croxsons said:

had a look at MemCheck, but am now confused ... only found some very simple websites with no html formatting ... am I going wrong?

Is there an ISO file (or similar) that I can download and burn onto a CD?

This be what you're looking for -
http://www.memtest86.com/
click "free download" you can either run it in windows or create a bootable CD.
I've done both

done, but it does take a bit of time does it not.

Will be interesting to see what it comes up with. I am looking at taking it up upto 2Gb anyhow, so thinking that it would be best to just replace the lot with 2 1Gb sticks.

Yeah it does take a while. The longer you leave it, the more thorough the checking will be

[croxsons]

2 hours 30 mins in, and it is at 95%, I have just left it running, but no errors thus far ...

[croxsons]

LukeBird said:

croxsons said:

ok, here's a question that would probably be a deal breaker.

I have CS2.3 on my PC, but is it possible to upgrade that to CS3 on a MAC?

The cost of re-buying CS3 from scratch for the Mac format kinda turns me off the idea

Yeah, can't see why you'd have any problem doing that.

I had a chat to a French bloke at Adobe Customer Services. They will issue a MAC version for free if I agree to uninstall and stop using the PC version. I can then upgrade accordingly.

If I did this, what is the risk of anyone finding out if a copy of Photoshop was still installed on an old computer that wasn't really used that much?

[croxsons]

the results of the MemCheck were negative, no problems at all.

Any other musings?

[LukeBird]

croxsons said:

LukeBird said:

croxsons said:

ok, here's a question that would probably be a deal breaker.

I have CS2.3 on my PC, but is it possible to upgrade that to CS3 on a MAC?

The cost of re-buying CS3 from scratch for the Mac format kinda turns me off the idea

Yeah, can't see why you'd have any problem doing that.

I had a chat to a French bloke at Adobe Customer Services. They will issue a MAC version for free if I agree to uninstall and stop using the PC version. I can then upgrade accordingly.

If I did this, what is the risk of anyone finding out if a copy of Photoshop was still installed on an old computer that wasn't really used that much?

Not a lot really, otherwise they'd have no problem tracking down the people who use key-generators to register their products

[LukeBird]

croxsons said:

the results of the MemCheck were negative, no problems at all.

Any other musings?

Not entirely sure what else to suggest.
I had some faulty RAM in my PC that wouldn't even allow it to boot and in memtest it was picked up fairly quickly, so I'd imagine the RAM is ok.

[croxsons]

I have a 128mb graphics card, could that throw up the same error?

I will try and re-create it, and state exactly what it says ...

[croxsons]

I have just opened up Illustrator and Photoshop, and chucked 61 high res images, and it came up with the familar message of:

Could not complete your request becuase there is not enough memory (RAM).

Ok, the above test is extreme and not representatitve of the work that I do, not even close, but at least I can re-create it ...

Normally I will only have one file open at a time, maybe having both Photoshop and Illustrator open at the same time, copying stuff across, manipulating PDF's, but nothing too strenous I would have thought.

[croxsons]

another error I just also, having just shut down Photoshop:

The instruction at "0x03f9d17c" referenced memory at "ox000000114". The memory could not be "read".

Click on OK to terminate the program.

[cyberface]

croxsons said:

another error I just also, having just shut down Photoshop:

The instruction at "0x03f9d17c" referenced memory at "ox000000114". The memory could not be "read".

Click on OK to terminate the program.

Did you reinstall Windows?

My money's on the system being full of cruft, and it being software rather than hardware.

The Windows crash is probably spurious as well, it'll be Photoshop having corrupted its own memory structures after running out of available space.

Only other thing - if your 61 images are so far over the Windows RAM limit that you're hitting swap file, have you got enough free space on your boot disk? No operating system, even the greatest of them all (Mac OS X ), can deal with not having any free space on the boot volume. Also, have you rigged the swap file to be a fixed size (not sure if XP lets you do this - my Windows expertise sort-of stops with Windows 2000 since I was 100% Mac from then on)?

You can watch the swapfile (page file, VM size, etc.) whilst you're stressing your system by showing the Task Manager in the Performance tab (ctrl-alt-del, hit 'task manager', or right-click the taskbar and hit 'task manager' IIRC).