MY COMP IS GAY...NEED HELP NOW!!!!!

ok..I have a 96' Dell with a Pentuim 2 prosscessor and running Photoshop 7 & Imageready on it.

Also have a 1.96 GB hardrive.

This is what happen:

I was on photoshop and my brush wouldn't show up, just the crosshairs.
So i got mad and closed photoshop then opened it back up again.
The samething happen, so I just decided to restart the computer.
At the time I had about 500 mega-bytes of free hard drive space in the memory
Then I restarted the computer, opened up photoshop again.
I get a message saying "Scratch memory is full, can not open this program".
Well I close photoshop and see that I now have 89 mega-bytes of free harddrive memory space.

So what can I do to fix this comp without buying a new one(Can't afford more then 300 bucks).

buying a new 80gig hard drive wouldnt cost you more than 100-150bucks

but a good 10gig would prolly be like $40 bucks.

www.newegg.com
www.pricewatch.com

both good places to find some cheap PC hardware.

~Rin

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Originally posted by Kritacul@Feb 15 2005, 03:31 PM
ok..I have a 96' Dell with a Pentuim 2 prosscessor and running Photoshop 7 & Imageready on it.

Also have a 1.96 GB hardrive.

This is what happen:

I was on photoshop and my brush wouldn't show up, just the crosshairs.
So i got mad and closed photoshop then opened it back up again.
The samething happen, so I just decided to restart the computer.
At the time I had about 500 mega-bytes of free hard drive space in the memory
Then I restarted the computer, opened up photoshop again.
I get a message saying "Scratch memory is full, can not open this program".
Well I close photoshop and see that I now have 89 mega-bytes of free harddrive memory space.

So what can I do to fix this comp without buying a new one(Can't afford more then 300 bucks).

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There's your problem. :)

Just buy a new computer...

And just to let you know...all you needed to do was press the caps lock key to switch between showing your brush and the crosshair.

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Originally posted by Twan@Feb 15 2005, 03:56 PM
There's your problem.* :)

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Just get yourself a new HD

Well, you have two options that you can do. I'm not quite sure if there is actually another way in which you can free the memory, but to my knowledge here is what I think you can do.

1. Completely remove Photoshop from your computer, and just reinstall it again.
2. Just reformat your computer, and start up from new again.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-144-107&depa=0 120 gig harddrive 76$

p.s. 80 gig hdd 100-150$? o_O

You might be able to get a whole new box for $300, if not brand new, atleast a first gen P4. Check you're local paper, I see comps better than yours going for 250 in my paper weekly. Even some as cheap as $100 (Pity I was broke when I saw the Mac G4 IMac for $100 a month or so ago).

$100 ? £65? Wow that's good, haha 2gig !?! That's smaller then an ipod..... LOL

2 GIGS?????? What the hell is the purpose? Just get a new pc for 300 $. Holy shit. My old compaq is better then ure p-o-s.

your computer does suck... just get a new cpu

I'm getting this:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-144-126&depa=1

what do ya think?

Looks pretty cool. Quite a big inprovement from 2gig lo.

yea....
but I saw this last night and its like 1 more dollar for 40 more gigs

80 gigs with a 8mb buffer...read the rest...MAWHAHAHA

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-144-122&depa=1

Um, if you want I am sure I can pick out parts for a 300 dollars computer that will blow yours away. I'm good with picking out effective parts.

just buy a cheap ass pc......for 300$...duh.

hey...I told u I can't buy a WHOLE new comp right now....and I already have a parts list for it...and just gonna use the 80 gb one I buy and put it in my costum one when I have the money for it...
I just need to take care of the hard drive now...so I still can have a comp to work on till I get a new 1..

Well, If I were you I would wait untill I could afford to buy a better working computer. And by the way, you must look if you are going to buy a new hardrive if it will work on such an old computer. Sometimes the harddrive is way to new for a computer. The same goes with about everything of a computer.
And by the way soniclnd.. CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Its the processor.
An new processor without any new motherboard will diffently not work if its not an old one.

Here is one computer at your pricetag.
Dell

whoa O_O how are you running windows...

A new CPU definately wouldn't make anything better. For one thing it wouldn't even fit into the socket.

New hard drives should work as long as it isn't SATA or some form of new data transfer.

Why would data transfer matter?

I don't need to ransfer any data to the new hard drive..just installing windows 2000 and photoshop 7.0 w/imageready....

I don't know WTF u talkin bout dawg...

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Originally posted by Crofty@Feb 23 2005, 04:07 PM
Why would data transfer matter?

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Because newer forms of it use different kinds of cables and connections. SATA wouldn't work with a piece of crap computer like his.

No offense or anything by "piece of crap computer", I'm just quoting you.

jesus man, u can buy comp 10x better than urs for 300$.... just buy maybe a 10gig hd and a few ram sticks. and maybe get xp or atleast 98?

He said he didn't want a new computer already. He is right, it would be best to save up another couple hundred dollars and buy atleast a 700-800 dollar one.

Man computers nowa days are cheap. I would give my old one for free if you live around me lol. My old pc is like 6 years old and it has a amd duron at 600 mghz, with 64 ram and 20 gig hard drive, not shabby for 6 years :).