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Out of memory errors
Sunday, September 16, 2001 at 6:21 pm
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Posted by GaryE (1 messages posted)


It's a little late to be quoting verbatim references but the out of memory error is not due to bad ram. I have it more than once, it's a consequence of over enthusiastic tweaking causing damage to dlls and the other stuff windows 98 is prone to. Couple of interesting points. Norton Utilities, as great as it is, can lock up your disc, or portions of it, causing some very strange things, even after it has been removed. I've currently got a drive J: which windows can see but not format, and norton and other diagnostics tell me a file utility has it locked. The only possible cause of this is NU which was removed prior to W98 reinstall, but because it was on another drive, causes all sorts of confusion. With all the extra ram, you can use it to run windows in. So you are using real ram instead of virtual. If you go over to Tek-Tips (just put that in your address bar) there's an FAQ on the Win 98 forum which explains how to use the extra ram instead of virtual ram, with apparently lightening results. Presently, I'm only using 128, but it's a high grade RAM (PNY) and find this amount faster than when I had 290 in of cheap stuff. So, to be honest I think the extra RAM is just a waste of money.


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Are you sure? (Curt R: Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 3:00 pm)

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-Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Tamas Frecska: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 5:41 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (russell gough: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 12:51 pm)
*re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (russell gough: Fri, Feb 1, 2002, 1:27 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Charles: Sun, Aug 19, 2001, 2:05 pm)
-re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Radalfo Daniels: Tue, Sep 18, 2001, 4:47 pm)
*re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (David North: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 12:30 am)
*re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Joseph: Tue, Jun 7, 2005, 5:00 pm)
-Are you sure? (Curt R: Sun, Aug 19, 2001, 3:00 pm)
*Out of memory errors (GaryE: Sun, Sep 16, 2001, 6:21 pm)
*re: Are you sure? (Charles: Mon, Aug 20, 2001, 6:43 pm)
*re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Tamas Frecska: Mon, Aug 20, 2001, 5:01 pm)
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