Virtual Memory Issues

[SRotblat]

I have Win2k running on a Dell Inspiron 7000 Notebook for about a month now without issues, well I downloaded 3 new critical updates from MS's Windows Update site. After the computer rebooted I got notification that the vitrual memeory allocation was too small, after looking at the settings it seems the computer believes that there is only 20MB allocated, even thouhg the minimum was set to over 400MB and max to over 900MB. I made both min and max to be 950MB and rebooted and the computer still thinks its set to 20MB. Nothing I do is changing how large the computer thinks the virtual memory allocation is. I even uninstalled all three updates without any change.

any ideas?

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q257/7/58.asp&NoWebContent=1

 

[SRotblat]

like I said the computer will not change how it acts even when I change what the settings are. I've been in there and made sure that there was enough allocated.

When I first got the error, the computer said it had 20MB allocated, yet the min size was 487MB (the min recomended) and the max was over 900MB. No matter what I put in either box I still get an error at boot up.

That link is only helpful if you dont know where to change the virtual memory setting....

 

[bcastner]

The article explains why the values need to be set to zero first.

 

[bcastner]

You might consider a permissions issue for SYSTEM on the hard disk drive:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315270

 

[SRotblat]

sorry I should have read the first link closer, I did in fact miss the setting to zero part. I just wish that had fixed the issue though.

I set it to zero, reboot, and then set it to what I should be (I did 480 and 950) and then rebooted again. But same porblem happened.

 

[bcastner]

And there are no permissions issues, as my second link discusses? This is the most common reason for the problem.

Assuming there is contiguous disk space to make the allocation, the only other possibility is how the OS was imaged:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=249321

 

[SRotblat]

ok so I finally got to deal with the issue more, didnt effect my work so I kept on truckin as they say...

turns out system was indeed no longer listed in the permissions for the C:\, put it back in and all is good again.

thanks