It's an Award BIOS and the version was 3.0 which I upgraded to 3.6. Incidentally, none of versions 5.5, 6.0 or 7.0 would work properly with the original BIOS. I talked to quite a few others running PS, and no-one else had the problem so it may have been unique to this M/B BIOS combination...
Tha problem was the BIOS. Downloading the latest version and flashing the BIOS chip got rid of the crashing problem. Question is, why was only Photoshop affected? That may have to remain an academic question.
This is basically what I have been doing except that I don't have an Athlon chip in any other system. I have not yet upgraded BIOS, did download the alleged upgrade but it does not appear to be the right one so will have to look at that again. Seemed an unlikely cause, however.
BTW the system...
I use Photoshop 7 on a number of systems, 3 of which use XP Pro. All but one work fine. But one system crashes after a random number of manipulations (anything from 1 to 10)to a blue screen and does a (interminable!) memory dump to disk.
It is an Athlon 1400 MHz CPU on a MS-6330 M/B with 512...
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