This post provide further information about computer repair services for
fix computer issues. today topic focus on
virtual memory problems. It may sometimes happen that the system give ‘out of
memory’ messages on trying to load a program, or give a message about
Virtual memory space being low. Possible causes of this are:
The setting for Maximum Size of the page file is too low, or there is not enough disk space free to expand it to that size.
The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shutdown. In the
Virtual Memory settings, set to “No page file,” then exit System Properties, shut down the machine, and reboot. Delete PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive, if more than just C:), set the page file up again and reboot to bring it into use.
The page file has been put on a different drive without leaving a minimal amount on C:.
There is trouble
with third party software. In particular, if the message happens at shutdown, suspect a problem
with Symantec’s Norton Live update, for which there is a
fix posted here. It is also reported that spurious messages can arise if NAV 2004 is installed. If the problem happens at boot and the machine has an Intel chipset, the message may be caused by an early version (before version 2.1) of Intel’s “Application Accelerator.” Uninstall this and then get an up-to-date version from Intel’s site.
Another problem involving
Norton Antivirus was recently discovered by MS-MVP Ron Martell. However, it only applies to computers where the pagefile has been manually resized to larger than the default setting of 1.5 times RAM — a practice we discourage. On such machines, NAV 2004 and Norton Antivirus Corporate 9.0 can cause your computer to revert to the default settings on the next reboot, rather than retain your manually configured settings. (Though this is probably an improvement on
memory management, it can be maddening if you don’t know why it is happening.) Symantec has published separate repair instructions for computers
with NAV 2004 and NAV Corporate 9.0 installed. [Added by JAE 2/21/06.]
- Possibly there is trouble with the drivers for IDE hard disks; in Device Manager, remove the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (main controller) and reboot for Plug and Play to start over.
- With an NTFS file system, the permissions for the page file’s drive’s root directory must give “Full Control” to SYSTEM. If not, there is likely to be a message at boot that the system is “unable to create a page file.”
