Compaq 5BW120 Out of memory

[MikeJoel]

I have been researching this and can't find a lot on it.
Figured someone may have seen this before and know a fix.

A customer has a Compaq 5BW120, 500 series.
Windows 98, not SE
600MHz
192MB RAM
IE 5.1

Problem
Out of memory errors such as "Not enough memory to run this application".

The customer had 64MB so I installed 128MB.
He says he is still getting the errors.

I have seen articles for systems with more than 528MB but this is no where near that.

He does have a few programs running from the taskbar BUT,
It is showing resources at about 68% and free ram at about 130MB.
He is runnig one of those weather things in the taskbar, I dislike those.

I had him update windows at the website.

Unless it is just the resources being below 70% causing a false error, I can't figure it out.

Any ideas?

Michael

 

[WheeDoggy]

68% on boot??? My Win98 is @ 94% after a boot!!

Sounds like you need to/can trim some of the fat -

First, see how system memory is doing:

At command prompt, type MEM /D /P
and evaluate............

Alter needed TSR's to load HIGH.
Check CONFIG.SYS - Change (if there) DEVICE=, FILES=, BUFFERS=, STACKS= to DEVICEHIGH=, FILESHIGH=, etc.
DO NOT CHANGE DEVICE= FOR HIMEM.SYS LINE (if this is the mem mgr used).
Make DOS line DOS=HIGH,UMB if not done already.

Check AUTOEXEC.BAT, change LOAD to LOADHIGH or LH

More than likely, vga monochrome feature isn't used, you can add VGAMonoText=Off, also MinSPs=8, and PageBuffers=32 under [386Enh] of the SYSTEM.INI file.

Let me know if this helps.

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

Have you check that your virus definitions are up to date and did a full system scan?

 

[lizardocda]

Compaq loads a lot of programs that run in the background (you will not see on taskbar). Click START -> RUN and type in MSCONFIG and click OK. Click on STARTUP tab. Disable programs you don't think you need by taking off the checkmark out of the box. Reboot system. This will speed up your system. If you find you did need the program that you disabled go back and put the checkmark back in.

Also try a program called Spybot which you can download at

http://www.download.com.

You collect a lot of garbage program ie spyware that will slow down your system. I found a big improvement in the computer after running the program.

 

[WheeDoggy]

"Click START -> RUN and type in MSCONFIG and click OK. Click on STARTUP tab. Disable programs you don't think you need by taking off the checkmark out of the box. Reboot system."

Geez, I totally spaced on mentioning that!