Re: Low Virtual Memory Startup Error and Lockup

Daave wrote:
"Tommy" <bad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

I'll tell ya one thing - the machine is a lot smoother with the 1GB ram!

My guess is that 256MB wasn't enough for you. Although increasing your physical memory to 1GB probably met your RAM demands, you probably never adjusted your Virtual Memory settings!

Daave, I did threw everything available under the kitchen sink at this issue. Remember, I could not get to the VM GUI manager. It has to be done using a special Registry Editor on an embedded XP boot CD called Bart PE. I tried increasing it, moving it, turning it off as suggested by one web site resolution in relationship to this type of error. I read SysInternal.com Memory Performance Tunning article and tried some of those.

Nothing work. The system was hosed. Of course, its a software bug somewhere in MS suite of drivers, and/or system hooks.

Anywho, I have everything reinstall and completely setup and operational again now, but if I had to guess, XP has a problem with:

VSS backups
System Restores

when used over an extended period unattended. I think the low memory was part of it. Something in the bootup sequence was working with this and it just couldn't handle it, but once corrupted, it was hosed. Probably was stuck in some endless loop, who knows! <g> but the mouse was still active, the gui manager was allowed the popup error dialog to be moved around, but since I could not bring up task manager, I could not see what process was stuck. Who knows!

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