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I am trying to get an older PC working with Windows XP. The motherboard is
an Epox 8KHA which has the VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset. The CPU is an
Althlon 900MHz.

After installing WinXP I noted that the machine went real slow and
eventually an error message came up statting that the machine had run out of
'virtual memory'. I checked the hard drive and there was approximately
16gig (it is a 20gig drive) left for the operating system to play around
with. There is also 512mg of PC2100 ram also. I checked the inside of
the box and found the chipset fan clogged up with dust and not working.

Could this be causing the problem of the PC going so slow? I recall the
machine was not as slow with the previous installation of Windows XP.

Thankyou,
Shane
 
You would have to assign more virtual memory, even if your PC had 16
gigs of free space...

I want to say that you can do this by going to system properties >>
Advanced >> Performance >> Advanced >> Virtual Memory >> Change
 
I am trying to get an older PC working with Windows XP. The motherboard is
an Epox 8KHA which has the VIA Apollo KT266A Chipset. The CPU is an
Althlon 900MHz.

After installing WinXP I noted that the machine went real slow and
eventually an error message came up statting that the machine had run out of
'virtual memory'. I checked the hard drive and there was approximately
16gig (it is a 20gig drive) left for the operating system to play around
with. There is also 512mg of PC2100 ram also. I checked the inside of
the box and found the chipset fan clogged up with dust and not working.

Could this be causing the problem of the PC going so slow? I recall the
machine was not as slow with the previous installation of Windows XP.

Thankyou,
Shane
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Lot's to tweak and disable in XP.
Try here,
http://www.tipsdr.com/
HTH :)



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You might try buying some canned air made for cleaning out PC's. It
can be used to clean old keyboards and to blow out the dust on the
CPU/Chipset coolers. Often if you take them apart you will see more
dust than you would think that has been trapped between the fan
bracket and the fins, and between the fins.

I have an Asus A7V266-E motherboard with a 1.2gig Athlon. It started
crashing all the time and when I took apart the CPU Cooler, There was
so much dust it was like a carpet of dust on the fins. I cleaned it
up and put it back together with some arctic silver and it is still
running.
 
I have seen this problem when running WinXP on a PC with 128 MB memory; which I fixed by adding another 256 MB. The message about not enough virtual memory indicates insufficient RAM. This message will usually come up only once, because windows will increase the size of the page file (virtual memory), but it will not fix the problem of running slow. Either windows is not seeing the full 512 MB or it is starting a program that uses an unusually larger amount of RAM.
 
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