Preserved Topic: Computer oddity (Page 1 of 1)

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My computer has 512MB of RAM, not to long ago that was amasing but not now. Anyway, I restarted my computer and got a VXD error. Started up in Safe mode. Tried to find the problem with no success. Never could get Windows to start properly. So I did what I know best and my computer kinda needed it at this point. Format....Reinstall. I then downloaded and installed all the same software I had before. The most important being AnalogX's MaxMem. Before the reinstall i usually ran from 50-75% RAM free. Now I am noticing that I get well below 40%. This seems very odd considering I run the same exact programs with all the current updates. My computer has been freezing up more and just a whole bunch of junk I wasn't expecting. Anyone that can offer some insight please tell me. My computer was awesome now it is shit. Not "The Shit" ....shit.

FYI
AMD 1GHz
512MB PC133
40Gig HD
Azza KT133 MOBO
Radeon 32MB DDR vid

if you feel you need to know more to help solve my problems just email me.
Thanx


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MalFunkShun
(i think it's broken)
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Does those numbers really represent percentage of free RAM memory, or you confused this with free system resources (you know, user, GDI, etc.) If those numbers actually represent free system resources, then that's a well-known problem with Windows 9x OS. No matter how much RAM memory you have, free system resources will get very very low under Windows 9x (more info about this can be found here). Situation is much different with Windows NT/2000, because it doesn't have any system resources limitations...



[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 07-14-2001).]

I was under the impression that Win98 wouldn't even properly use that much RAM in the first place.

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Windows 98 doesn't support that much RAM but SE does.

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MalFunkShun
(i think it's broken)
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That's not true, *all* versions of Windows 9x (95/98/Me) can handle maximum 512MB of RAM memory ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/14967.html ). On the other hand, under Windows NT/2000 there's no such limitation.



[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 07-14-2001).]

well, really, windows 9x doesn't 'properly' use much of anything



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Sure it does DL

It makes "proper" use of all my patience!

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[This message has been edited by butcher (edited 07-14-2001).]