Insufficient memory

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Jason Hemmer

Alright I hope someone can help me figure something out.
Everytime I start my PC after desktop loads I get an error
that just simply says "insufficient memory". My specs for
my PC are as follows:
Windows 2k Pro
Celeron 1.7Ghz
Nvidia GeForce 4 with 128 MB of DDR
2x512mb @266 DDR RAM
60GB Hardrive at 60% left
and my virtual memory settings are set to recommended at
least I think they are.
Am I overclocked? I think I did something wrong and I
can't quite figure it out, so I'm wondering if someone can
help me, thank you very much for your time.
 
Is that all it says or is there more to the message? Do you have a
pagefile.sys on C:? Try running a chkdsk on the drive in recovery console.
Does it do the same thing in safe mode? Maybe its just an application load
error.
 
That is all it says. It's a small box that shows up as
soon as windows is finished loading and my desktop and all
the Icons are there. It's wierd. I'll go ahead and check
what you mentioned and see if that works thank you very
much.
 
Alright, I ran a chkdsk and the files seem fine but there
is a message at the top that says:"warning F parameter not
specified". I;m not sure if that's normal but I do
appreciate all your help so far.
 
Hi Jason,
You can try CHKDSK /P at Recovery Console (this is the same as chkdsk /f
from within Windows). The message you saw indicating that the /f switch
wasn't specified indicates that chkdsk was running in "read-only" mode,
i.e.: not necessarily fixing any problems it might have found.

You may also want to try deleting the pagefile from within the Recovery
Console, it will be recreated when you boot up the next time. This would
alleviate any pagefile corruption or heavy pagefile fragmentation.

Steps to delete pagefile.sys are detailed in the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;255205

--

David Bullock, MCSE, MCSA, A+
Windows NT/2000/2003 Setup Support

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