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Adjustments for RAM
Malcolm
System resources are unrelated to the amount of ram with this possible exception: Because you have more ram, are you trying to do more at the same time (dual tasking) which might account for system resources being depleted faster? When I used W98 as my primary system, I almost never ran out of resources because I had very few programs starting at boot and consuming the limited amount of resources. My rule of thumb was if I did not use a program at every boot, it did not get started at boot. Could this be part of the problem? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "MalcolmO" wrote in message ... 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. |
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