not enough memory

[ardendale]

I have a problem, I just added a new graphics card and now most of my programs don't work because a box comes up and says I don't have enough memory, windows help indicates that I may have problems with my virtual setting & swap file win328.swp , I found the file & it has alot in it but is write protected & access denied when I try to open it, mys system is a 900 celeron cpu, with 768 mb ram, and the new card is ATI Radeon 9000 64 mb made by fusion computer (flash) getting frustrated 2nd video card in a week the first was a nvidea mx440 geforce 4, cost me a power supply, motherboard & hard drive befor I took it back and demanded a different one. Help!!

 

[GeneticWeapon]

You need to post your system spec's completely. Including Operating system.

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[MegaCharger]

I can imagine how bad it feels to have blown your money on a GF4 MX

 

[14Dx]

9000 pro is almost as good as 8500, meaning better then gf4mx440. you dont have to insult him.

If its not broken, you're not trying hard enough.

 

[error_911]

yeah, besides, i wasted my money on an MX440 and will be replacing it by a R9500/R9600 soon so

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[umheint0]

Try going into your performance settings settings and disabling your pagefile. Restart your computer, and then reenable the pagefile. I know with XP the pagefile is called that, but I'm not sure about older versions. Personally, since you have a lot of ram, I don't think you need to use a pagefile anyway, so you can do just fine running windows from ram. I did it with 512MB.

XP 2500+ Barton @ 2256Mhz
A7N8X Dlx
2x512MB Corsair PC3200
MSI GF3Ti 500 @ 265/570
16x DVD-ROM
2x80GB 7200RPM Maxtor
Onboard audio
3DMark 2001 SE - 10528

 

[ardendale]

Thanks for trying to help me, however on my performance page I have file system but not page file option, Specs, 900 celeron, 768 mb ram, 40 gb hard drive western digital 7200 rpm, now a radeon 9000 64 mb video card, motherboard is a gigabyte GA 6VTXE-A, any help would be appreciated

 

[ardendale]

System Specs, Running windows 98 SE, 900 Celeron Processor, 768 MB Ram, Western Digital 7200 rpm 40GB HD, 48x CD, 12x 8x 32x LG Burner, Sound Blaster 16mb sound card, Motherboard Gigabyte GA 6VTXE-A, Futuremark Score Mark 2001 3820 , 2002 score only 2109, I got 2175 before with my old Voodoo card 16 MB. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[redface]

Can you specify your OS version as well?
Did you try loading fail save bios selections and see if that work?
Did you completely reinstall everything(windows, office, everything) when you added your new v-card?

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[umheint0]

rt-click my computer - properties - performance - virtual memory - let me specify my own virtual memory settings - disable virtual memory - okay - okay - restart.

Now you have no virtual memory.

XP 2500+ Barton @ 2256Mhz
A7N8X Dlx
2x512MB Corsair PC3200
MSI GF3Ti 500 @ 265/570
16x DVD-ROM
2x80GB 7200RPM Maxtor
Onboard audio
3DMark 2001 SE - 10528

 

[ardendale]

my op system is windows 98 SE, I just re-loaded everything this past week as my first new card, the GEForce MX440, was difficult to load & after coming back from 2 shops my system was dead so I just purchased a new Power supply, Motherboard & hard drive and started all over again, but I loaded everything with my old voodoo card to get my system up and running again. I haven't tried anyting in the bios except setting my agp port to 128 mb as 1 shop told me to always set it to more than the card is rated for, Thanks.

 

[phial]

Win98 cannot uitilize more than 256m/ram i do believe. if youwant that extra ram to be of use, get win2000 or XP

someone tell me im wrong if i am, but ive read this and heard it from to 2 experienced techinitions. they said win98 just doesnt address over 256


have you checked your computer for viruses? waht programs are running? ctrl-alt-del to find out. thats a complicated problem and id rather sit down at your monitor than troubleshoot over these forums.

actually, id take this to the Memory or CPU section of these forums. the people there might be able to help you better, were just a bunch of gamer hobbiests here, in the CPU sections theres ALOT of nerds who know alot more than i do

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[ardendale]

Thanks for the advise, I may take this to the CPU or Memory section especially about using extra RAM, once again thanks.

 

[ardendale]

I tried working with not virtual memory & that seemed to help sometimes but wasn't consistent and still had problems & some time lag between programs, however getting advise from the motherboard guys was a good idea, someone suggested a download program called "Casheman" to help with the extra ram, apparently anything over 512mb with windows 98 doesn't do anything for the computer & in some case like mine it actually hinders the machine, but this Casheman program sorts out all the bugs, and speeds up everything at least it seems to be working real good now. Thanks for the advise.
p.s. you are right they say, more ram works best with windows 2000 or XP.

 

[selfbuilt]

Glad to see it seems to have helped your problem ... sorry for getting to this thread late, but I thought I'd add my experience. Running without problems a Radeon 9500 Pro on an Asus A7V8X with 512MB PC-333 DDR and Windows ME (I know, I know ... I'm upgrading to XP on my next re-build).

However, when I tried to go up to 768MB, the system became unstable. This was manifested as graphic card problems (wouldn't recognize the card properly, default to 256-colour mode, etc, etc.). All problems solved when I when back to 512MB. It definitely seems like Win98/ME is unstable with larger amounts of memory, although I suspect this is also somewhat graphics card dependent.

Where does good judgement come from? Experience. Where does experience come from? Bad judgement.

 

[phsstpok]

Windows 9x/ME can't manage memory over 512 MB very well. The problem can be fixed with system.ini tweaks but I always forget what they are. It's easier just to use Cacheman 5.11.

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Here's Microsoft's description of the problem.

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912" target="_new">http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912</A>

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[phial]

ah so its 512.. i heard it from a guy i knew, but forgot wat exactly he said..

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[shadus]

This is a fairly common problem with 98/ME and large ammounts of ram, I had it about a year ago when I upgraded my system to 1g of ram. There are two solutions, 1) XP/2000 2) Limit the memory the system can see... I installed with 512mb ram and then after adding the tweaks (from ms knowledge base.) I added the other two sticks in and all was happy. I show 768mb runs stable... If I remember correctly what you need to search for is "rogue vcache". There are two or three lines you need to add to an ini file to fix it... but don't try to install with more than 512mb memory installed, it doesn't work very well.

Shadus