Error "Unable to continue...hardware or system error..." When Starting Photoshop 6.x

See:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/2aa72.htm

Hi
This forum serves Photoshop.com, an online portal and service, separate from the desktop app. Could you please repost your question here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/general
Thanks,
Charlie

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Unable to continue: hardware or system error

Hello,
I tried starting up PE8 today, and received this message:
Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable.
This only occurs while opening "Edit," but not "Organize."
I'm fairly certain I know what has caused the error - I uninstalled an old trial version of Premiere Elements the other day, just to clear out some space on my computer, and I'm guessing that uninstalled something that shouldn't have been uninstalled, something that was also used by Photoshop Elements.
I have already tried the resetting/deleting the preferences folder.
My version is Photoshop Elements 8.0. My OS is Windows 8, 64 bit. RAM is 8.0 (7.4 usable).
I have a license for two computers, and both licenses are in use.
Is this error really unrecoverable? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

i777k
Deleting the settings file has been known to resolve this type of issue. How did you go about resetting/deleting the preferences folder?
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/preference-file-locations-photoshop-elements. html
Was it the Adobe Premiere Elements 8 Prefs.psp file that you deleted?
Or did you go the Ctrl+Alt+Shift hold down as you clicked (held click) on the Editor tab of the Photoshop Elements 8 Welcome Screen?
What antivirus program do you have? McAfee or other? Have you disabled the antivirus program to determine if that had any affect on the
issue?
If you have not already and nothing else is resolving the issue, consider a deactivation, uninstall, reinstall with a ccleaner run through between the uninstall and the reinstall.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
We will be watching for your results.
ATR

Photoshop "Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error.

Originally installed adobe photoshop cs. This couldn't be activated and support was contact they advised to uninstall and install adobe photoshop cs2 with a serial number provided that was provided with the link. CS couldn't be uninstalled due to the following errors 'epmty temp folder' (which was done) 'program may be in use' (it wasn't) 'no internet connectivity' (internet connectivity was active). Support couldn't assist with this. So Cs2 was installed and activated successfully. However as soon as photoshop is started the following error is displayed "Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable." I've reset prefences and also removed the nvidia video driver after reading a thread photoshop has known issues with nvidia drivers. Also tried logging in an another user. I am now out of ideas as to what to try to get this to work. Can anyone suggest anything that may get this resolved.
Thanks

zipform wrote:
Originally installed adobe photoshop cs. This couldn't be activated and support was contact they advised to uninstall and install adobe photoshop cs2 with a serial number provided that was provided with the link. Thanks
You mention a link. Did you download the special CS2 installation file, and not use an original CS2 file?
Your system originally had CS on it? CS is ten years old. How old is the computer you are using?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#CS
How does this system stack up with the minimum requirements for CS2?
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/system-requirements-photoshop.html#main_ Older_Versions
Remember these are _minimum_ requirements, which in reality means not even close!
If you think your system should be up to it, do what Station said, and give us a very full description of your system and operating system. (Unless it is Windows XP. )

Unable to continue because of hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable

photoshop cs3 stopped working. get error - unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry but the error is unrecoverable. Reloaded software - but not resolved. Any advice? Someone mentioned Settings files or profiles?

This occoured in Photoshop CS3 today. All other Adobe products are functioning normaly on this system. Premiear CS3, Encore, Audition function fine. Photoshop was working fine then failedduring the evening. We have removed and reloaded Photoshop CS3 and recieve the same error. Still the remaining Products run as expected. All other Aplications on the system run normaly as well. No other indications of hardware issues are logging. There is ample memory and space available on this system.
Someone else suggested I trash my PREFS (I am not sure How I proceed in doing that - any advice on how to delete the prefs - willing to try that at this point) Thanks

Photoshop CS3 stopped working - Error - Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error.

Unable to continue because of hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable. (reinstalled software (CS3) not working. Next step - Any advice please?

Hi
This forum serves Photoshop.com, an online portal and service, separate from the desktop app. Could you please repost your question here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/general
Thanks,
Charlie

Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. sorry but this error is unrecoverable

I am using PSE 9 and am running on a XP .
When I open the editor , I get an error message " unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. sorry but this error is unrecoverable "
Please heeeeeeeeeelp me ..!

Bump up as many times as you want... nobody can help without DETAILS
More information needed for someone to help http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416679
Some specific information that is needed...
Brand/Model Computer (or Brand/Model Motherboard if self-built)
Build a Configuration file http://www.piriform.com/speccy
How much system memory you have installed, such as 2Gig or ???
Operating System version, such as Win7 64bit Pro... or whatevevr
-including your security settings, such as are YOU the Administrator
-and have you tried to RIGHT click the program Icon and then select
-the Run as Administrator option (for Windows, not sure about Mac)
Your Firewall settings and brand of anti-virus are you running
Brand/Model graphics card, sush as ATI "xxxx" or nVidia "xxxx"
-or the brand/model graphics chip if on the motherboard
-and the exact driver version for the above graphics card/chip
-and how much video memory you have on your graphics card
Brand/Model sound card, or sound "chip" name on Motherboard
-and the exact driver version for the above sound card/chip
Size(s) and configuration of your hard drive(s)... example below
-and how much FREE space is available on each drive (in Windows
-you RIGHT click the drive letter while using Windows Explorer
-and then select the Properties option to see used/free space)
Windows Indexing is BAD http://forums.adobe.com/thread/676303
While in Properties, be sure you have drive indexing set OFF
-for the drive, and for all directories, to improve performance
Some/Much of the above are available by going to the Windows
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OR Control Panel--System--Hardware Tab--Device Manager for WinXP
And the EXACT type and size of file that is causing you problems
-for pictures, that includes the camera used and the pixel dimensions

Getting error while tring to Check in any document in Sharepoint 2007. Error - "Unable to validate data. System.Web.Configuration.MachineKey.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength) ...

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I am getting error while tring to Check in any document in Sharepoint 2007. Error - "Unable to validate data. System.Web.Configuration.MachineKey.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength).
Anybody please let me know how to resolve the issue. It has affected our 9 site collection with almost 2000+ sites. Please email me your your suggestion or you can share your ideas here also.
Tried to reset the IIS, checked the Internet connection speed (8MBps). Cleared the cache and all but no luck.
Thanks,
Pronob

Hello,
I have found this support window for you:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/556031
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc298582%28v=office.12%29.aspx
This may help you
Hemendra:Yesterday is just a memory,Tomorrow we may never see
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[SOLVED] ERROR: Unable to determine the file system type of /dev/root:

:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...done
Root device '804' doesn't exist.
Creating root device /dev/root with major 8 and minor 4.
error: /dev/root: No such device or address
ERROR: Unable to determine the file system type of /dev/root:
Either it contains no filesystem, an unknown filesystem,
or more than one valid file system signature was found.
Try adding
rootfstype=your_filesystem_type
to the kernelcommand line.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[ramfs /]# [ 1.376738] Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3013.000 MHz.
[ 1.376775] Switching to clocksource tsc
That's what I get when I boot my Arch system. It worked fine for quite a while, but suddenly it ran into an error where the SCSI driver module was corrupt. I fixed it by reinstalling util-linux-ng and kernel26, however, I run into this issue now. http://www.pastie.org/2163181 < Link to /var/log/pacman.log for the month of July, just in case. Yes, I bought a new ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5450 this Saturday, but it seemed to work fine till this broke and it works fine on Ubuntu too, so I suppose we can rule it out.
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Autodetection failed on your first image, in both your previous kernel installs:
[2011-07-04 16:14] find: `/sys/devices': No such file or directory
Which means that sysfs was not mounted. You should be able to boot from the fallback image, which does not use autodetect. Figure out why /sys isn't mounted, as well, and fix that.
This is also a somewhat crappy bug in mkinitcpio that lets you create an autodetect image that's useless. It'll be fixed in the next version of mkinitcpio that makes it to core.
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Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while ...

Hi,
I've looked all around the forums for the answer to this one and I'm still unable to get it. So I'm getting this error "Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume". This started happening after I turned off and on FileVault. I was having a problem with it and turning it on an off got rid of that problem, but created this one. I've noticed that when I shut down the computer and filevault accesses the TM hard drive, it can back up.....but then when I'm logged on, or I want it to back up I get the error. I've tried fixing the drive, removing the in progress file and resetting the PRAM (i think that's what it was called). I'm starting to run out of options and have no other drive to back all this info on to reformat it.
I really don't want to loose all my stuff.
Please help!
Daria

nautical_stars wrote:
Hi,
I've looked all around the forums for the answer to this one and I'm still unable to get it. So I'm getting this error "Time Machine Error Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while linking files on the backup volume". This started happening after I turned off and on FileVault.
Usually this message happens when you replace an external disk that was being backed-up by Time Machine with another one of the same name.
Since File Vault works by making a sparse image of your home folder, and it's treated as a volume just as a HD is, that's probably what's happening here: the new sparse image has the same name as the old one, but isn't the old one.
First, consider whether you really need File Vault. It doesn't work well with Time Machine: you can't see or restore individual items in your home folder, and it only gets backed-up when you log out.
If you have a lot of other things, say photos, videos, and/or music that don't need to be encrypted, perhaps there's an easier way to secure our sensitive data. You can create an encrypted disk image via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder), then copy the sensitive documents into it. Then the rest of your home folder is backed-up normally, and individual items can be viewed and restored in the usual fashion.
But if you do continue using FileVault, you may have to use TM to delete all backups of it, via the instructions in item #12 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum. That should then allow the new version of your encrypted home folder to be backed-up by TM.

Error during encryption or decryption. System error code 997.

Hello,
I am trying to reconnect to a farmafter my PDC crashed and I had to create all the new users, When I run the sharepoint configuration tool and can get as far as entering the DB server which then finds the sharepoint_config. I add the connection details and select next which then throws up the following error:
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              The parameter user is chosen,
so returning the value as IPIC\cdigby
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Entering function Command.this[string key]
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                Entering function CommandCollectionBase.Get
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Found value in collection for key password
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                Leaving function CommandCollectionBase.Get
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                Found parameter password in collection
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Leaving function Command.this[string key]
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              The parameter password is chosen, so returning the value as ***************
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              The parameter password is chosen, so returning the value as ***************
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Entering function Common.CreateSecureSringFrom
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Leaving function Common.CreateSecureSringFrom
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Entering function Farm.IsJoinedToFarm
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                Entering function Farm.TryIsJoinedToFarm
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  My cached Farm object is null, so will load it
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Calling SPFarm.Local and SPServer.Local to get the local farm objects
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  SPFarm.Local returned null. This usually means that the server is not joined. But, you can delete a server from the configdb without unjoining, which would mean that this machine still thinks it is joined.
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Trying to access the server farm connection string
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Entering function TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion3ConnectionStringExists
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    Entering function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                      The RegistryHelper has the key name as SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDB and the registry hive as LocalMachine
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    Leaving function RegistryHelper.RegistryHelper
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    WSS v3 registry key SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Secure\ConfigDB for the connection string does not exist
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    Unable to get the WSS v3 connection string
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Leaving function TaskCommon.TryGetWssVersion3ConnectionStringExists
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  DID NOT discover a v3 connection string and SPFarm.Local indicates that this machine is not joined.
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Entering function Farm.Clear
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    Entering function CentralAdminServiceInstance.Reset
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                    Leaving function CentralAdminServiceInstance.Reset
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                  Leaving function Farm.Clear
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                                Leaving function Farm.TryIsJoinedToFarm
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Leaving function Farm.IsJoinedToFarm
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Creating connection string for config db SharePoint_Config server IPIC-SERVER2\SHAREPOINT
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Creating connection string for admin content db SharePoint_AdminContent_938f78c4-0a10-4a04-b4e0-26a95d7a9022 server IPIC-SERVER2\SHAREPOINT
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Using NTLM for sql connection string
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Openning configdb so that I can join it at server IPIC-SERVER2\SHAREPOINT database SharePoint_Config in farm mode
09/13/2008 13:20:34 8 INF                              Now joining to farm at server IPIC-SERVER2\SHAREPOINT database SharePoint_Config
09/13/2008 13:21:38 8 ERR                              Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception
09/13/2008 13:21:38 8 ERR                              Exception: System.ArgumentException: Error during encryption or decryption. System error code 997.
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPCredentialManager.DecryptWithMasterKey(Byte[] rgbEncryptedPassphrase)
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPEncryptedString.GetSecureStringValue()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPEncryptedString.get_SecureStringValue()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPProcessIdentity.get_SecurePassword()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPApplicationPool.Provision()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebServiceInstance.Provision()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Join()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.Run()
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()
If anyone can help me work around this I would be extremly grateful.
Thanks

   Hi,
I found an article explaining the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927156.
Please try to disconnect the configuration database from existing farm environment, and then create a new configuration database:
1.      Click Start, click Run, type cmd in the Open box, and then click OK.
2.      At the command line, change to the following directory: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions
      \12\BIN
3.      At the command prompt, type the following command to create a new configuration database: psconfig -cmd configdb -create -server
     ServerName -database ConfigDBName -user Domain\User -password Password
4.      Rerun the SharePoint Products and Technologies Wizard.
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I'm using time machine to do my backups but now is not working.
I'm getting the following error:
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.
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BOILERPLATE TEXT:
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
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if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
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etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=98975f
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The fonts required for Photoshop CS5 are listed at the bottom of this document:
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