re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' Friday, April 1, 2005 at 12:30 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David North (1 messages posted) I ran Norton on this windows 98se system for years with no issues--now it crashes when updating due to insufficient memory. I just upgraded to 1.5 gig and had to limit the pagefile setting and vcache (in your sustem32 file) so win 98 could boot succesfully. Norton is the only program doing this and i thjink it may be that it is ignoring the windows limits I set on ram access and trying to use it all like windows would normally. That would cause the problem anyway. FYI, Norton CAN really mess up your system when uninstalled. AVG free is a great, low bandwidth program for antivirus on an older pc. Clean uninstall too. Lastly--I totally dispute the "never need more than 128 mb statement earlier. You will if you have to fix hard drive problems or run deep diagnostics and fixes notice the difference. 512 mb is really a good standard for the average user now and no les than 256 mb certainly. It takes a loooong time to reinstall windows, remove spyware and run antivirus and diagnostic/repair programs on a 128 mb machine. I maxed my old pc out from 256mb to 768 mb and many programs showed marked improvements--very noticable. On Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 4:47 pm, Radalfo Daniels wrote: >Those suggestions are all good, but there is one fundamental problem. All Windows >OSs based on the Windows 9x kernel (Windows 95, 95a, 95 OSR2 - 2.5 (B and C), 98, >98SE, ME) have a problem with more than 512MB of memory loaded on a system. Fortunately, >Windows NT, 2000, XP do not have such a problem because they are based on, in my >opinion, the better NT kernel. Try taking out one or more of your DIMMs until you >have less than 512MB in the system and try some of the same tasks >--Just a suggestion >-=Radalfo=- > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)' (Radalfo Daniels: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 4:47 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum