Adobe Photoshop problems.

[Pacinamac23]

Installing Photoshop works fine. But when I try to load it up I get an illeagle operation error. This happens with both version 5 and 6. I wasn't sure what the problem was so I installed it on my mom's comp and it worked on her's. I got so frusterated that I did a complete reformat and installed it again. I get the exact same thing! I had photoshop 5 on a long long time ago but since then quite a few things have changed on my comp. It's an AMD KT133 system. ABIT KT7 RAID in fact. I have all the newest drivers installed. Does anyone know what the problem might be? I heard it might be something in the registry but I think that reformatting would have cleared up that problem.

 

[Scitex]

What exactly does the error say? What OS are you running, how much RAM? You did purchase this and it's not warez, right?

 

[Pacinamac23]

Photoshop 5 error:
PHOTOSHP caused an invalid page fault in
module COOLTYPE.DLL at 0177:00a0085e.
Registers:
EAX=000003e8 CS=0177 EIP=00a0085e EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=00cdbbc0 EBP=00cdbc58
ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=00cdbc18 FS=2d5f
EDX=00000d36 ES=017f EDI=00cdbc58 GS=4f86
Bytes at CS:EIP:
38 19 0f 84 44 ff ff ff 8b 56 14 38 1a 75 72 e9
Stack dump:
023ca464 023d7fb0 023ca494 00000001 009d8a28 023d7fb0 00cdbc00 023d840c 023c82c0 00a792e0 023c82c0 00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Photoshop 6 error:
PHOTOSHOP executed an invalid instruction in
module PHOTOSHOP.EXE at 0177:00bb7262.
Registers:
EAX=00bb7262 CS=0177 EIP=00bb7262 EFLGS=00010a82
EBX=012e0000 SS=017f ESP=013efe3c EBP=013eff78
ECX=819277c4 DS=017f ESI=819277a4 FS=4dd7
EDX=81927804 ES=017f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff ff 8b 45 10 5f 5e 5b c9 c3 83 4e 0c 20 8b 45
Stack dump:
bff8b537 00000000 819277a4 012e0000 746f6850 6f68736f 58450070 00000045 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Win 98, 256mb memory.

I installed it right off the CD.

 

[Mixxen]

Did you call tech support?

Also there is an update available for Photoshop 6

6.0.1 Here

 

[Pacinamac23]

The weird thing is that it used to work. I just recently got photoshop 6 and I went back to 5 and got the same problem. But, 5 used to work well for me. It is obviously not a problem with the software itself because it works on other computers.

 

[Pacinamac23]

I updated it and still the exact same problem. Image read 3.0 seems to work though, weird.

 

[SuperFreaky]

wow, this is a strange one... what components do you have in the system? you tried stripping it down to just the GFX card?

 

[Pacinamac23]

I have a TNT2 Ultra. I've tried the det 2 drivers, 5.30 and det 3, 6.5 I am thinking of removing the drivers and just using the basic ones and see what happens.

 

[Scitex]

Could be that you've got a funky font on your system. Try moving them all to a temp folder and see if Photoshop will start. If it does, then you will want to start moving the fonts back a few at a time until you get the error again. If that works,get rid of the offending font.

Hope this works.........

 

[Pacinamac23]

I tried removing all of em. Didn't help. I put them all back in but now having problems. The stuff on the top right corner of windows (X and box and line) and other things are not showing up properly. UGH!

 

[Pacinamac23]

I just tried running it from the other networked computer. By going into network neighbourhood, looking through the files, opening the .exe and guess what? It worked. It took a while to load but it still worked. Something is very weird here.

 

[nsxdemon]

prolly something wrong with some windows software (big surprise there...). Is the system clean or have you installed/uninstalled a bunch of stuff lately? If it's not hardware related, which it may or may not I don't know, then registries and such may be to blame.

 

[Adul]

Now this is the weirdest ps5/6 problem I have seen yet. if you drive is partition, or you have another drive in your system, may I suggest you move the swap file to another drive or partion. it amy help.

 

[esung]

I had couple similar problems with the computers at work in Photoshop 5.0. it turns out one of them is caused by a dead CPU fan.. the computer works with every apps except Photoshop and one file in Lotus.
The second problem I have turns out to be a virus (CIH).

This may or may not apply to you.. but it won't hurt to check.