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Originally Posted by PiffStenis
Have you checked you have latest video drivers?
I can run PPro CS3 on my IBM Thinkpad T30. 2,2GHz and 768M RAM. (It's baout 6 years old now). Of course it's slow - but it is stable. What you are describing sound like a graphic card issue.
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I believe you?re right about the problem being a graphics card issue. When I uninstall the ATI video driver, the system is useable and does not crash but upon system start, Win XP wants to go through the find new hardware ritual. I cancel out of that.
Without the video driver, the screen refresh on all programs are slow ? very slow, i.e. when scrolling the screen pages slowly. This is a pain, especially when browsing the web.
I did find a post from a year ago on the Adobe Forum with the exact same problem on a ThinkPad. His solution was to disable 3D acceleration. Our video cards are different but both were made by ATI (AMD). I tried his solution and it did not work.
I tried a 3rd party driver such as the
Omega Catalyst Driver but Win XP did not recognize it. There are later drivers for the card from ATI but Lenovo writes their own and the ones from ATI are not recognized by the ThinkPad.