CS2 PROBLEM -- ANY MODERATELY LARGE OPERATION SHUTS DOWN MY LAPTOP

Hi. Need help, if anyone has recommendations.
I have Photoshop CS2 on my traveling HP Pavilion zd7000 laptop. 4 gigs of RAM. About 3 gigs of available C drive. Any time I try and paste an image larger than 5 megs, my laptop uddenly goes completely dead. Similarly, if I suceed in pasting something of 1-2 megs in size, and then try to move it, my laptopgoes completely dead. Black screen, power shuts off, everything -- just plain dead. And when I reboot, nothing since the last save has been retained.
Suggestions, anyone?

If you only have 3 GB of space available on your hard drive, you need to free up space. You should have no less than 15% of the drive capacity free, and for Photoshop (and its very large scratch files) I would suggest at least 15 GB if 15% is less than that. Your computer makes lots of temporary files while doing almost anything, and when Photoshop is being used it makes some really huge files -- huge enough to store each layer of your image for each of the steps in the undo list. If you have a 1028x1028 pixel file in 16 bit per channel RGB, each layer with image information is going to require 6 MB uncompressed, and each layer mask will take up at least 1 MB. If you have 10 layers, 5 with masks that means your scratch file has to store 65 MB for each history state. Do a few brush strokes and you are up to 20 history states, or 1.3 GB for editing a measly one megapixel image. And Photoshop opens a blank scratch file that is considerably bigger than initially needed so it doesn't have to keep going back to the OS and ask for more file space (which will result in fragmentation and takes additional time). So that seems likely to be the main problem.
If that doesn't solve the problem, I'd bet your processor is overheating and causing the shutdown. Have you cleaned all of the air vents and made sure all of the fans are working properly? Also, try putting the laptop on a laptop cooler. More drastic solution is to open it up and replace the heat transfer compound connecting the CPU to its heat sink, but only try this if you know what you're doing; you will certainly void your warranty.

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