Startup of XP sp1 complains about not enought virtual memory and reboots before completely boots up

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James

Hello,

Thank you for you help up front.

I am running Windows XP SP1 with a Soyo motherboard. The computer was
improperly shut down so it was running the check desk and my father
thought it was too slow so he turned off the power. Well after that
it was complaining about a system32 file missing or corrupt so I
reinstalled xp on top of the previous version.

I used the 6 floppys for the reinstall and that went fine. Once it
was through it reboots and complains that this is not enough virtual
memory and then reboots. It never boots up completely. It does this
over and over. I know for a fact that there is more that 10 gigs free
on the partition so that is not it.

The partition size was the only thing I could think of.

I have even tried to boot to safe mode, safemode with command prompt
and boot with last known good setting and this all results in the
virtual memory error and reboots before booting up completely.

If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate all the help I can get.

Thanks.

James Mcintyre
 
Hi,

I would try loading the Recovery Console and deleting the pagefile.sys file
from the root of the boot partition. it may be corrupted. It may also help
to run "chkdsk C: /r" from the prompt as well (assuming C: is the boot
drive).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
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