1 gig ram but says low on memory 1

[SuperGeek]

Hello :
I have dual boot system. I just upgraded my memory to 1 gig. Great for XP. On 98 says its dangerously low on memory??? I have adjusted my Virual memory with no difference. Also my norton says it my not operate and my midi sound is now disabled.. I had 512 ram before and worked perfectly.
My system:
1 gig memory
Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4 GigHtz
NVidia 4X

Please help

 

[vickero007]

How much hard disk space do you have left? When you added more memory that also requires more Virtual Memory which uses hard drive space. See if the amount of hard drive space you have left is less than the Virtual Memory initial size.

-Volkoff007

 

[SuperGeek]

XP has 25 gigs
98 has 10 gigs

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Disk space has absolutely NOTHING to do with your problem.. Your preoblem is that Win98 CANNOT use anything more than 512megs of ram efficiently.. Otherwise, you get the error message you are getting.

Microsoft has a supposed fix that will work a bit but they recommend reducing ram to 512 megs.

Murray

 

[SESaskDFC]

BTW.. with that much ram, you could, for all intents and purposes, turn virtual memory OFF with no ill effects.

Murray

 

[drvvarma]

then it should b of no problem
ingeneral according to microsoft, the thumb rule is that the virtual memory should be fixed at value 1.5 times greater than the real physical RAm, you understand na,
ex: for 128 MB ram, it will be 192 and like that
then I used it as 2.5 times the physical RAM, it worked fie in this value of virtual memory,
you can even this
then, you ca nstandardises and fix the cachesize, so that this fragmentation of swap file reduces(it is called page file in win xp), you ca nad the following code in the system.ini file

MinCacheSize=12288
MaxCacheSize=12288
ChunkSize=12288
this way you can fix the cache, things will be better if you do this way,
hey forgot to tell, donot just add 12288, add the value based on your physical RAM,
if your physical RAM, is 128 MB, you can try
1024 * 6 = 6144
for 256 MB ram, you can do this way
1024 * 12= 12288
for my system it is 192 MB RAM, I still use 12288 value only, things are fine for me.
ok, it will be fine
based on your physical RAM, you multiply the 1024 with the particular number.

try different values and experiment on different values and fix the one value which you find better and applications load faster.

then, iwant to tell you may be your system has some many unwanted installatyions, orphan files and registry entries and etc, check them you clean yur registry, then check the startup loading items, disable the ones you just donot want to load at system startup,
do thwesxe things, you may find things better

final solution is ofcourse which is not so, but alas, format your OS, particularly the drive (that drive in which you had installed a particular OS ex:win98), like some d: drive or somethingthat drive alone, then reinstall the OS, check if you encounter all the errors again, probably those will not occur, since the registry is fresh
take this as the last solution.
hey dopnot just reinstall on the existing installation, format the drive alone and reinstall in it, otherwise only those missed cab files or sthose things alone will be repaced, and things may not change,ok

 

[SESaskDFC]

As per Microsoft...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311871

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253912

Murray

 

[Jontmke]

I think you guys are missing the boat here. That message usually is referring to the old DOS\WIN98 conventional memory. It is 1MB used by the OS to load part of programs into. When programs close theya re supposed to tell Windows that it can have there memory back but they don't. So, when Windows loads another program it uses new memory and eventually runs out.
About the only thing you can do is reboot, and keep an eye on known memory hogs. Outlook, and other Office programs are famous for this.

WINNT and 2000 and XP do not do this.
By the way, there is a fix for the 512 limitation also.

JON

 

[SuperGeek]

Thank all. It worked