Maya Crash upon assigning existing texture

[Obsydian]

This problem won't hurt me much right now, but later on in class...

Maya is having fatal errors and shutting down everytime I try to assign an existing texture. This is a new pc, running Vista 64bit. Using nvidia geforce 9800 GT.

[Professor Watkins]

What version of Maya?

[Obsydian]

8.5

[Professor Watkins]

Hmmm. You might double check to see if there are any update packs, or any known issues with 8.5 and your video card or operating system. 8.5 is pretty old now, and there were probably some changes in Vista that requires some updates.

[Obsydian]

Alright I'll take a look, thank you. :)
Too bad I can't afford to update it right now, Maya quit updating so quickly. ;)

[Obsydian]

There, I found the maya service pack update, and it fixed the problem. Thanks again :)