Recent low memory problems

[buckyballe]

Hello All,

I am experiencing low memory problems. I run 98SE, have 312MGs of Ram. Particularly troublesome is when I load Quickbooks. It immediately gives me low memory alerts and says it needs 2.5 MGs of ram to load. My system resources says I have at least 100 MGs of ram available. I can force Quickbooks to work with persistant memory alerts. Finally, I get a system blue screen crash. I've run Norton Anti-Virus and PestPatrol. Thanks for your help

Bucky

 

[ski]

Restart the computer, do a Ctrl-Alt-Del on the Desktop, shut down all programs running in the background except Explorer and Systray with the 'Close Program' utility, open Quickbooks, and see if the problem still happens.

If the problem goes away, then you can prevent those programs from running at startup by going to Start/Run, type msconfig, click OK, click the Startup tab, uncheck the boxes for all items except System Tray, ScanRegistry, and your firewall(if you use one), click OK, and restart the computer.

 

[fenix]

just to add another bit, also check your start up window under explorer.

A short cut to get there is to right click the start up button, select explore, expand programs, and select start up. delete any icons in the right window.

also, you can check the status of your virtual memory. If windows isn't handling it, the min and max should be set to 1 1/2 times the amount of ram, or 468 in your case. This might be set too low. Or set it back to 'let Windows handle my virtual memory.

Rt click my computer, select properties, performance and virtual lmemory is on the bottom.

 

[micker377]

You say this is recent, have you run "memtest86" to see if ALL your memory is working?