Re: Startup of XP sp1 complains about not enought virtual memory and reboots before completely boots up

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 13:25:09 -0400

Hi,

I would try loading the Recovery Console and deleting the pagefile.sys file
from the root of the boot partition. it may be corrupted. It may also help
to run "chkdsk C: /r" from the prompt as well (assuming C: is the boot
drive). 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"James" <jamesamcintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f2ed1da7.0408280910.9a7ef7a@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for you help up front.
>
> I am running Windows XP SP1 with a Soyo motherboard.  The computer was
> improperly shut down so it was running the check desk and my father
> thought it was too slow so he turned off the power.  Well after that
> it was complaining about a system32 file missing or corrupt so I
> reinstalled xp on top of the previous version.
>
> I used the 6 floppys for the reinstall and that went fine.  Once it
> was through it reboots and complains that this is not enough virtual
> memory and then reboots.  It never boots up completely.  It does this
> over and over.  I know for a fact that there is more that 10 gigs free
> on the partition so that is not it.
>
> The partition size was the only thing I could think of.
>
> I have even tried to boot to safe mode, safemode with command prompt
> and boot with last known good setting and this all results in the
> virtual memory error and reboots before booting up completely.
>
> If anybody has any ideas I would appreciate all the help I can get.
>
> Thanks.
>
> James Mcintyre

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