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re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Friday, February 1, 2002 at 1:27 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by russell gough
(2 messages posted)
Actually I think I've just found a solution to this problem. It is because of ME's
problem with VCache so limiting the amount it can use for this seems to work. This
is how to do it:
Run msconfig
Go to system.ini
Expand the [vcache] (there should just be an empty space below it)
Click the space below it then click the edit button
Type: maxfilecache=512000
Apply this & close down your PC
Install the extra memory above 512MB & restart PC
BIOS detects memory above 512MB (as usual)
Windows ME should start OK now (mine did)
Go to System in the Control Panel. This should show that it has detected all your
memory.
I've run my PC for a while now with no problems. Please tell me if this works for
you. I hope it does.
Russ.
On Friday, February 1, 2002 at 12:51 pm, russell gough wrote:
>I've come across the same problem so I did a bit of searching for a possible solution.
>None found unfortunately but I did find a good site that seemed to explain the problem.
>Here it is:
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>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14967.html
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>Simply Windows ME can't handle anything above 512MB RAM. They suggest upgrading
to
>Windows 2000 (or even XP) which can.
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>Seems as if Microsoft have found another way of making me buy their latest operating
>system.
>
>
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>On Friday, August 17, 2001 at 5:41 pm, Tamas Frecska wrote:
>I have a question about Dealing
>with Bad Memory (RAM):
>Is the following a memory problem or not? I upgraded my computer (motherboard,CPU
>and Ram)to 768Mb Ram. Everything works fine but certain programs (always the same
>programs), give me a message "not enough memory to run this program." Some program
>disks, e.g. a Comcast upgrade, I can't even look at with Windows Explorer because
>of this message. Unrelated but, occasionally Norton 2001 chimes in with a message
>of "dangerously low memory." What gives? I'd appreciate any and all comments
>Tamas
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