CS4 Keeps crashing...

Slightly ( ) dated computer, 2.8 gig p4 proc, 2 gb of RAM. XP. CS4 will just close. Hasn't always happened though. I have Chrome and Outlook up. Graphics card driver is updated, I just don't know what else to try. CS4 is setup to use 1150 mb of the RAM, scratch disk is on a separate drive.
Thoughts?

Run diskcheck and memtest. Likely either memory errors or disk errors.

Mr. Clean wrote in post #9563096
Thoughts?

Don't edit 5D MKII and 1D MKII files on it?

I use a similar speced P4 at work, it struggles with outlook, SAP and Excel spreadsheets. I can't imagine what it would be like with the massive files from your cameras

I'm with Moppie on this one, that system really is too old. If either of the tests above don't pass (throw in SMART tests as well, but that system might be old enough that the drives don't have user accessible SMART functions)

It was managing 1DIII files fine, 5DII files also. Processed a whole set of wedding pics from both cameras on this machine! This last week though, no dice...

My office computer has similar specs (P4, XP, 2gigs memory) and it's rock solid stable. When was the last time you did a full reinstall of the OS and all apps? Could be a lot of cobwebs in the XP install. And when was the last time you blew out the dust?

BTW... noticed you're in Olympia... My youngest daughter is a junior at Evergreen College (yeah, the freakin' hippy school).

Exactly, with everything else, it does very well. Ironically enough, it's crashing during a D700 jpeg load
I haven't done a reinstall in quite some time, it's never needed it! She's been taken care of really well.
Nice! Evergreen is a pretty interesting school, hippies and all! It's a good one in the end though

Mr. Clean wrote in post #9565925
...She's been taken care of really well...

I don't know if gender is a factor, but mine is a "he".

Mr. Clean wrote in post #9565925
Exactly, with everything else, it does very well. Ironically enough, it's crashing during a D700 jpeg load
I haven't done a reinstall in quite some time, it's never needed it! She's been taken care of really well.
Nice! Evergreen is a pretty interesting school, hippies and all! It's a good one in the end though

A reinstall work's wonders..

Mr. Clean wrote in post #9565925
Exactly, with everything else, it does very well. Ironically enough, it's crashing during a D700 jpeg load

Tried moving that file elsewhere?

have you tried resetting the preference files? I know when my CS3 starts doing that, dumping the preferences fixes it.

how to:

edit: hold down these keys when starting photoshop

Windows: Shift+Alt+Ctrl

Mac: Shift+Option+Command


and once you have them reset the way you want to this page shows how to save the files in case you need to do a future reset.
http://www.photoshopsu​pport.com …shop-preference-file.html