BSOD when starting up app... what to do?

[thehickoks]

Installed trial version of PD (plan to order it)...

Loaded XP...

Changed video from 16 to 32mb

Loaded trial version of Photoshop Elements 5.0

Attempted to start PSE and each time I do I get the BSOD...


Any ideas of how to get PSE 5.0 to work?


Thanks,
Bryan

 

[dkp]

What kind of Mac are you running?
What version of Parallels?
Did Parallels Tools install correctly?
How much RAM is in your system?
How much RAM did you allocate to Parallels, or is it set to automatic?
How much RAM did you allocate to Windows?
What does Windows Taskmanager tell you about memory?

 

[thehickoks]

What kind of Mac are you running?

macbook c2d 2.0GHz with 2GB

What version of Parallels?

3186

Did Parallels Tools install correctly?

As far as I know...

How much RAM is in your system?

2GB

How much RAM did you allocate to Parallels, or is it set to automatic?

Auto - 512MB

How much RAM did you allocate to Windows?

512MB

What does Windows Taskmanager tell you about memory?

Total - 523828
Available - 424804
System Cache - 53600

This is without anything running...

 

[thehickoks]

I believe the BSOD talkes about page fault in non page area

 

[dkp]

Try giving Windows more RAM, temporarily, at least, 800 meg or more.

 

[thehickoks]

Try giving Windows more RAM, temporarily, at least, 800 meg or more.

I gave it 1500MB and 32MB of RAM...

That seemed to work, however it makes me mad because that's not a real world setup for me...

I wanted to pick up parallels for the purpose of running PSE 5 and a few other programs... but if I have to max out the memory I might as well reboot and go into bootcamp while using macdrive 6.0...

oh well....