Memory ??

[azamora]

I have a PIII 933mhz 128mb 10gig with windowsME
everything works great, that's for the first 2 hours of use, in the 3rd hour, can't have more than 6 internet explorer windows open at the same time otherwise, the video starts glitching in the program icons only and all the fonts change to black, get bigger and misplaced, in the 4th hour, its about 2 or 3 open windows only and the hard drive keeps reading and reading even when im not doing anything, in the 5th hour, a weird window (with no title) pops up saying no memory, close some programs etc..

System Information says all the time i have 430k free physical memory (out of 128MB? give me a break), even when WinMe just started up

memory doesn't seem screwed since I booted with a system disk with a config.sys line DEVICE=C:\himem.sys /testmem:on
and it doesn't show any address errors.

I have an Nvidia geforce2 MX/200 video card with a couple of games,
everything runs perfect, i have played 10 hours straight, i have max payne,quake3, age of empires and i get no errors,bugs, system delays... nothing at all.

Know any memory integrity testing utility? if so plz post the url.


any help would be appreciated<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by azamora on 09/30/01 08:37.</FONT></P>

[reghakr]

What programs do you have running at startup? here's my general tips on that:

First go to Start&gt;Settings&gt;ControlPanel&gt;Automatic Updates and turn off automatic updates. choose I will update my computer manually.

Then right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature.

For the others, go to Start&gt;Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load Power Profile (both),*StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one.

Go to Start&gt;Run, type notepad c:\windows\win.ini and check for programs loading here:
[windows]
load=
run=

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the Recycle Bin

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools&gt;InternetOptions, click the Delete Files and Clear History buttons. Click the Settings butoon and set a reasonable cache size. I'd suggest 40MB for a 56K connection, 10MB for cable or DSL. Click the View Objects button and see if any are listed as damaged. If so, right -click on them and choose Remove.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag.

If you don't know what an entry is or what it does, post back.

What version of IE are you using? I've heard 5 &5.5 with no Servuce Packs installed had memort leaks. I'd suggest upgrading to IE6. Then go back to Windows update and download the Critical Updates package for your computer.

Try tapping the Alt_Ctl_Del keys after being on the net for awhile and see if any program is listed in the Task List as (not responding).

Then head over to NVidia for the latest drivers. Don't use the latest beta driver either.

reghakr

[azamora]

thanks for the whole clean-up lesson, it speeded up bigtime,

(did everything you said, step by step,, btw ie6 is cool.)

still im having the same problem..
help, i don't know what to do.. (really.. don't know what to think)
now ill think twice before installing a pirate copy of windows, ill buy the online-supported windowsXP for sure when it comes out..

could it be that this ram is 2year old pc-100 and the MB is brand new?

does anyone know a program that detects motherboard brands and chipsets (lost the manual.. duh) perhaps i can tweak something in the bios?


any help would be appreciated

[azamora]

for all of you that may be interested in what i did to *solve* this problem..

describing what says above in a few words:
--im having a major memory leak here. so i decided to counter it with a simple program, but not solving the problem.
I downloaded a memory manager called "RAM Idle" from www.voodoofiles.com, its not the solution but will keep me alive till i buy windowsXP

all I have in the tray is: volume control, norton antivirus, msn messenger, icq, morpheus, sblive feature, and now the memory manager.

still, anyhelp would be appreciated

[reghakr]

You can remove msn messenger, icq, morpheus, sblive feature. None are neccessary. I have SBLive myself.

reghakr