shardie Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Hi all, This probably my first post. Anyway ive been following OSX86 since it all started. Managed to get my own rig running now after selling my macs. Anyway that a long story. Heres what happened. Installed OSX (JAS 10.4.7 and updated to 10.4.9). Installed all the other stuff as well, Aperture, iLife, FCP2 etc etc. Then comes CS3. Installed it and the unthinkable happened - CRASHED at activation. I searched the forums for three days. Tried EVERY fix. Reinstalled 7 times. No luck. After being so frustrated I discovered that my sound was only on one channel. so in pursuit of happiness I downloaded the kext to fix - which didnt. I was using a newly bought Gigabyte mobo. My old ECS lay on the floor begging to be used. I new the sound was in stereo on that board so damn I wanted John Legend in stereo on my creative speakers - Anyway. Being the beautiful OSX I unplugged (basically ripped) the hardware off the Gigabyte mobo and plucked it all into the ECS mobo. I thought lemme uninstall CS3 and get to CS2 as work awaited. I ran Illustrated one more time. Activation window came up and the clicked on the next button waiting for the error message. none appeared. DAMN is is good. But i wasnt gonna get my hope up. Illustrator started up and worked like a dream. Then i tried Photoshop = 100%, then Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, ALL = 100% ECS I LOVE YOU. So basically i discovered that its a damn hardware problem somewhere. Who cares now - CS3 working now. So if u have another mobo on the floor give it a try. Okay now for the specs : ECS P4M800-M7 v1.0 (small board but kicks ass) 2Gigs DDR 400 3.2G Intel CPU (NOT CELERON) Inno 3d 256mb VGA Firewire Card Onboard Sound = WORKING Onboard LAN = Working SATA = WORKING IDE = WORKING USB = WORKING Me Specs : Rashaad (SHARDIE) http://www.theimagehouse.co.za msn chat : rsallie@hotmail.com gimme a hola to help u out - if i can Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 wow, i would have never guessed...... that might be my issue too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/#findComment-427107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shardie Posted August 14, 2007 Author Share Posted August 14, 2007 Maybe ppl should look at it as being a problem, maybe just boot up from another mobo and see what happens. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/#findComment-427167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yakumo Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 When CS3 activates it is tied to your hardware including (quite probably exclusively) your motherboard ID, to move the install to another machine (or motherboard therefore) you must de-activate your adobe product first on the old equipment. if your old motherboard's failed so you can't run it to do the deactivation, then you'll have to call adobe. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/#findComment-440909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Doubt it. Most companies tie the licenses to the mac address of the ethernet or wireless card you have in your computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/#findComment-441070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Doubt it. Most companies tie the licenses to the mac address of the ethernet or wireless card you have in your computer. I'm not sure what it's tied into on the Mac yet, however it does appear to be different from Windows. I image all my system drives using Norton Ghost 12 for my PCs and Hackintosh and CopyCatX for my Mac Pro. On Windows, if you just transfer your system to a different hard drive, your Adobe software will need re-activation. I discovered the hard way that Adobe only gives you a limited (I think 5) number of over the internet activations before you have to start using the phone. To my surprise, with both my Mac Pro and my Hackintosh, re-imaging to another hard drive has not caused me to have to re-activate my Adobe stuff. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60042-the-dumbest-cs3-fix-ever-it-worked-though/#findComment-441525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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