re: Question about 'Dealing with Bad Memory (RAM)'
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 5:00 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joseph
(1 messages posted)
Thank you for this solution. I have a dual boot system with ME on one partition and
Win2K on the other. I just added new RAM to 1GB and kept getting "not enough memory"
error message for certain programs in Windows ME, effecting even starting up DOS
programs. Limiting the memory to 512MB has removed these error messages completely,
as well as stopping freezes or the mouse cursor vanishing.
So thanks for your solution,
Joseph
On Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 2:05 pm, Charles wrote:
>
>Tamas,
>
>Your problem is two fold. The first is to tell Windows not to use so much memory
>for it's cache. You can do this by going to Start then Run and typing in MSCONFIG.
>After clicking OK, click on the Advanced button. Go to and check Limit Memory to
>and enter 512. (this will render the 256meg over 512 not used).
>
>It sucks but this is a known issue with Windows. It simply was never developed to
>handle this much memory because none of us could afford it or our motherboards were
>not able to have as much. Now that prices have dropped, we are all going out to
buy
>more memory only to find out that our operating system can't handle it!
>
>Symantec is finally admitting that their utilities program can't handle more than
>256meg! They offer a 'workaround' but it still does not work on systems with more
>that 256meg.
>
>They (Symantec) have not announced a fix. Nor do they seem concerned at all that
>their product is flawed. I suppose they, like Microsoft, never anticipated RAM prices
>dropping to the point where all of us 'common folk' would have this much memory
in
>our computers.
>
>What is really wrong about this and ticks me off the most is that both Microsoft
>and Symantec have known about this limitation for months, perhaps years! It obviously
>was never a 'high priority' concern to them because the majority of their customer
>base didn't have this much RAM installed. So nobody complained about it.
>
>We should all write to them now to let them know how displeased we are about this.
>
>One final but drastic thing you could try is to pull a stick of memory out of your
>computer and actually run with less.(Maybe get your money back?).
>
>Again, this sucks, but I don't see either company addressing this as an 'issue'.
>I wouldn't look for a software fix for quite some time (if at all!).
>
>I hope this helps.
>I suggest you try Microsoft and Symantec web sites to get further information.
>
>Good luck,
>Chaz
>
>
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