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Old March 2nd 07, 05:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
MalcolmO
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Default Adjustments for RAM

Unless you are getting *out of memory* messages, nothing is required.

Well, most every session included 3 to 4 times when Win falls over and I
press either the reset button or just turn it off.

I *think* it might be a bad video driver because immediately on boot to
run Troubleshooting for ATI Desktop, I get "There is not enough memory
available for this task. Quit one or more..."

Anyway, it seems like GDI resources are vanishing. I get the old Win 3.1
dialog that says "System resources are low! Quit Explorer?" messages.
But if you quit everything, it's no help. Especially Explorer.

It _does_ seem as though the OS falls over more often since I went from
128MB to 640MB. I tried clicking "Set memory to [512MB]" using msconfig
but got no improvement. In another ramification (so to speak), I was
unable to make a ramdisk with the unused memory. That didn't make any
sense to me and I didn't even try to figure out why. :/

I'll try making the vcache adjustment and see what ensues. Thanks, Ron.