Adding Memory for Photoshop?

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dreioncytherea

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I currently have 3.74 gb left on my desktop. I installed photoshop 6.0 before but it was always freezing or not responding everytime I tried to use it before when I still have 6.20 gb left on my desktop. My desktop is a pentium 3 with an 800 mhz processor. Now my question is..if I buy a 40 gb or 80 gb hdd for my desktop..will that suffice? I mean will that make the photoshop work?? or do I have to buy a new 128 mb video card also?

Another thing..everytime I try to play something on my desktop..after a while..I'll hear no sound and it'll say that I don't have a speaker. Usually, what I do is I restart the computer and there'll be sound again. Is that a software issue or a hard drive issue? to top it off, sometimes desktop freezes and I get gray bars for a couple of seconds and then the taskbars will be back to green and blue again? what's the problem with that?

I seem to have multiple issues with this computer but it's still working. Finally, a generic host message that tells me there's a windows system 32 error comes up..what am I gonna do to get rid of that?

Thanks so much
 
I don't think that adding more HDD space will make Photoshop run better or stop it from freezing up.

How much RAM do you have? Because Photoshop is a pretty demanding program and having say, 128mb of RAM wouldn't be enough.

Also, your CPU is pretty low and may be struggling there.
 
Thanks so much for replying. I've got 256 mb of ram. When you say that my cpu is low..are you referring to the processor and the pentium kind?
 
I have to say, PS 6.0 should (technically) run fine on that computer, given that there's no other problems. My parent's computer is an Athlon 800Mhz with 128 RAM and I'm running PS 7.0 with no lag or slow down. Any issues you have are probably a just a bogged down system.
 
I think some more RAM and maybe a slightly better CPU would help a lot though, but before you go and buy anything do a defrag and a virus scan...
 
okay..so that means I'll buy a new processor then a new RAM??

and starwarsman..what do you mean by a bogged down system..what is causing it?
 
but otherwise I can go ahead and buy an 80 gb or a40 gb for a pentium 3? is that possible? cos the tech person is telling me it is possible.
 
The HD is based more on the motherboard, not the processor. And yes, it should be fine. My old video editor was a PIII 733MHz, 256MB RAM, a 25GB boot and 80GB video drive. It ran Photoshop CS quite well, and same with Premiere 6.5. However, it was a VERY clean install with next to nothing running in the background.

I expect your biggest problem is lack of resources. You have the power, but you have too many other little things stealing it. Do a fresh install of windows, that's probably make the biggest increase in performance.
 
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