Setup:
Athlon64 3400+ 2.2Ghz
Windows XP Pro (32 bit) virgin install with all updates and sp/2
I see there are plenty of posts here about problemsinstalling CS3 suite. I too had no luck on 3 separate machines. I'd ordered the Trial CD set for $20 and have working versions of Production Studio CS2 on 2 machines so after trying the install on three machine and more than once on each it would just stall out or never finish.
I spent a day trying some of the fixes I'd read about.. None of that is relevant here. But to cut to the chase... I just gave up on installing it and was busy with video productions.
A few weeks have gone by and for other reasons I happened to do a clean full windows XP install. My Media disk (Windows XP pro), is a bit old so doesn't have sp/2. But once installed, I upgraded to sp/2 and all updates without problems.
I happened to notice my CS3 suite install Discs put aside and thought hey... I wonder if that darn thing might install on this virgin machine.
It installed without a single issue. I was just rejoicing as the reboot started and was thinking about taking back all those bad things I thought about adobe.
I eagerly fired up the new pristine photoshop and got the expected screen to put in a serial number or click on the `trial' radio button.
Clicked the radio button and got a second screen advising me there had been a problem:
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> A problem was encountered while trying to load the trial period for Adobe Creative Suite.
> Click quit to see if restarting your computer or reinstalling the software will correct this problem. Otherwise click `continue' to display a screen where you can enter a valid serial number to begin using the product without trial.
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Dog gone it... just when I thought I had it made.
I tried only the first suggested remedy of rebooting again ... I doubt reinstall of the software will fix it either really and the reinstall is quite time consuming.
None of the other posts I've scanned though here seemed to have encountered this... has anyone here seen this and more over have an idea how to proceed with the trial?
At this point I'm left with large pile useless shortcuts and quite a lot of HDD devoted to unusable software.
Athlon64 3400+ 2.2Ghz
Windows XP Pro (32 bit) virgin install with all updates and sp/2
I see there are plenty of posts here about problemsinstalling CS3 suite. I too had no luck on 3 separate machines. I'd ordered the Trial CD set for $20 and have working versions of Production Studio CS2 on 2 machines so after trying the install on three machine and more than once on each it would just stall out or never finish.
I spent a day trying some of the fixes I'd read about.. None of that is relevant here. But to cut to the chase... I just gave up on installing it and was busy with video productions.
A few weeks have gone by and for other reasons I happened to do a clean full windows XP install. My Media disk (Windows XP pro), is a bit old so doesn't have sp/2. But once installed, I upgraded to sp/2 and all updates without problems.
I happened to notice my CS3 suite install Discs put aside and thought hey... I wonder if that darn thing might install on this virgin machine.
It installed without a single issue. I was just rejoicing as the reboot started and was thinking about taking back all those bad things I thought about adobe.
I eagerly fired up the new pristine photoshop and got the expected screen to put in a serial number or click on the `trial' radio button.
Clicked the radio button and got a second screen advising me there had been a problem:
===========
> A problem was encountered while trying to load the trial period for Adobe Creative Suite.
> Click quit to see if restarting your computer or reinstalling the software will correct this problem. Otherwise click `continue' to display a screen where you can enter a valid serial number to begin using the product without trial.
============
Dog gone it... just when I thought I had it made.
I tried only the first suggested remedy of rebooting again ... I doubt reinstall of the software will fix it either really and the reinstall is quite time consuming.
None of the other posts I've scanned though here seemed to have encountered this... has anyone here seen this and more over have an idea how to proceed with the trial?
At this point I'm left with large pile useless shortcuts and quite a lot of HDD devoted to unusable software.