AndyT
Contributor
Hi all
Hi all.
Having some problems, hoping someone can help.
About a year ago I started having issues with Adobe Bridge CS3.
When I wanted to browse a folder of images sometimes it would lock up and freeze the computer - the hard drive light would just stay on all of the time.
The problem got progressively worse - ie, it happened more frequently. The only way to get the PC working was to power off and then on
again - even ctrl + alt + del wouldn't bring up the task manager.
I was advised that there were probably bad sectors on the drive that I store my images on and that it needed replacing, which I did.
The issue was still there, but later extended to PSCS3 as well in that it would sometimes freeze when saving images or corrupt the PSD file such that it was un-readable.
I have windoze XP64 bit and program files only on my C drive, my images are stored on separate drives.
Next I replaced my C drive and did a fresh install of everything, the problem remained.
PS is the only resource intensive program I use and the only one which freezes the system.
Things that feeeze the system:
Opening Bridge and opening a folder with anything more than around 50 orf files.
Assigning keywords - If I go too quickly between keyword.
Changing the workspace in PS.
Saving a psd in PS (sometimes)
As of today I can only get Bridge to open, I cannot even browse any folders - it just locks up !
I have set up PS to use 70% of available memory.
The same version of PS on my laptop (a "lesser" machine), installed from the same disk works perfectly. And no, I am not using a pirated version.
System specs:
Intel P4 3.4 GHz
RAM - 4 Gb DDR2 667 MHz
Motherboard - Intel 975XBX
C Drive - WD Velociraptor 10000RPM 150Gb (Wnndows XP64 and program files only) - not used as a scratch disk
E Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 500Gb, 220GB free space (photo's)
F Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 160Gb, 6GB free space (secondary scratch disc)
G Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 320Gb, 61Gb free space (Primary scratch disc)
Can anyone please advise/assist ?
Hi all.
Having some problems, hoping someone can help.
About a year ago I started having issues with Adobe Bridge CS3.
When I wanted to browse a folder of images sometimes it would lock up and freeze the computer - the hard drive light would just stay on all of the time.
The problem got progressively worse - ie, it happened more frequently. The only way to get the PC working was to power off and then on
again - even ctrl + alt + del wouldn't bring up the task manager.
I was advised that there were probably bad sectors on the drive that I store my images on and that it needed replacing, which I did.
The issue was still there, but later extended to PSCS3 as well in that it would sometimes freeze when saving images or corrupt the PSD file such that it was un-readable.
I have windoze XP64 bit and program files only on my C drive, my images are stored on separate drives.
Next I replaced my C drive and did a fresh install of everything, the problem remained.
PS is the only resource intensive program I use and the only one which freezes the system.
Things that feeeze the system:
Opening Bridge and opening a folder with anything more than around 50 orf files.
Assigning keywords - If I go too quickly between keyword.
Changing the workspace in PS.
Saving a psd in PS (sometimes)
As of today I can only get Bridge to open, I cannot even browse any folders - it just locks up !
I have set up PS to use 70% of available memory.
The same version of PS on my laptop (a "lesser" machine), installed from the same disk works perfectly. And no, I am not using a pirated version.
System specs:
Intel P4 3.4 GHz
RAM - 4 Gb DDR2 667 MHz
Motherboard - Intel 975XBX
C Drive - WD Velociraptor 10000RPM 150Gb (Wnndows XP64 and program files only) - not used as a scratch disk
E Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 500Gb, 220GB free space (photo's)
F Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 160Gb, 6GB free space (secondary scratch disc)
G Drive - Seagate 7200RPM, 320Gb, 61Gb free space (Primary scratch disc)
Can anyone please advise/assist ?