Graphics card dies when using Adobe premiere

Everytime I try to edit something in Adobe Premiere, my graphics card dies and then it starts back up but the program doesn't run properly then. I have a 1.66 ghz intel dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, and an ATI radeon xpress 200m graphics card. I kind of think that since 250mb is dedicated to the graphics card, that is why it keeps dying and when I am editing, it overloads the RAM and therefor stops the graphics card. Let me know if this theory is correct and if it is, I'm upgrading to 2GB (I was going to do that in the near future anyway)...thanks in advance

 

Premier hogs both memory and harddrive. Download a copy of hdtune, and go to the health tab, to insure that its not just your harddrive crapping out on you.

Go to task manager, and if you are using more than 1Gb of memory, you are using page files on your harddrive which act as ram, which ultimately makes your harddrive work harder.

You can simply shut off programs you are not using, with msconfig. This will help speed up your system, and make your system use less resources, so premier will run better.

I have created many movies on my Dell 8500, it had 512mb mem, 64mb overclocked go4200, 2Ghz P4m, and 40gb 5400rpm drive.

If you are running vista, then thats the problem, as it uses a ton of memory, and it uses most of your x200m to just run the operating system.

K-TRON

 

Yeah...I'm using vista...but will upgrading the ram help this problem or should I be pissed that I didn't buy a better laptop

 

editing minimum 2gb with xp and I would say 3 or 4gb with vista.
your laptop is probably ok, onboard video not a good choice though.
If it was me-get a new lappy with a dedicated video card, preferably nvidia (open gl), not ati.
Premiere is pretty forgiving on hardware, unlike Avid, but the ram issue is for sure.

 

Or I could get a mac so I can use final cut since Avid still hasn't made its software for vista...or I could downgrade (if you want to call it that) to XP