pcman2002b
Senior member
I work for a small computer retail store and we recently built some old fart a computer.
This guy was such a pain, he was a real stubborn guy. He has this photo software from Win3.1 (but he likes it because its so easy to use).
We originally had XP on their and the software would run in compatibility mode just fine until you tried to access a scanner or digital camera. It would lock up and close the program. So we decided to throw Win98 on the system and call it a day. All of his crap is working just fine but when you run the photo software (called Aldus PhotoStyler by the way, which was purchased by Adobe) it starts up and says Insufficient Memory. You click OK and a white box says something along the lines PStyler.exe has caused General Protection Fault Error (a series of numbers) blah blah blah, Ignore or Close. You click Ignore it closes the program and BSOD. You click Close it closes the program and then all of a sudden the computer is running awfully slow. You double-click My Computer, it never opens up. You right click something it takes about 10 seconds for the menu to show up. You open up Start menu and click anything it either says, You don't have rights to access this, or You do not have sufficient memory to run this application, or The link to this file is missing. Check the resources show 82% free (he has 512MB, which I know is a bad idea for 98, but thats what he wanted). The only way to fix it is to restart the darn thing.
He says it has run on Millenium and 98 in the past, so I'm wondering if it has something to do with a hardware issue (we put some really cheap crap into that system because we were trying to compete with an Office Depot ad. The motherboard is ECS, which says a lot). Thanks in advance.
This guy was such a pain, he was a real stubborn guy. He has this photo software from Win3.1 (but he likes it because its so easy to use).
We originally had XP on their and the software would run in compatibility mode just fine until you tried to access a scanner or digital camera. It would lock up and close the program. So we decided to throw Win98 on the system and call it a day. All of his crap is working just fine but when you run the photo software (called Aldus PhotoStyler by the way, which was purchased by Adobe) it starts up and says Insufficient Memory. You click OK and a white box says something along the lines PStyler.exe has caused General Protection Fault Error (a series of numbers) blah blah blah, Ignore or Close. You click Ignore it closes the program and BSOD. You click Close it closes the program and then all of a sudden the computer is running awfully slow. You double-click My Computer, it never opens up. You right click something it takes about 10 seconds for the menu to show up. You open up Start menu and click anything it either says, You don't have rights to access this, or You do not have sufficient memory to run this application, or The link to this file is missing. Check the resources show 82% free (he has 512MB, which I know is a bad idea for 98, but thats what he wanted). The only way to fix it is to restart the darn thing.
He says it has run on Millenium and 98 in the past, so I'm wondering if it has something to do with a hardware issue (we put some really cheap crap into that system because we were trying to compete with an Office Depot ad. The motherboard is ECS, which says a lot). Thanks in advance.
