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by ahmed_gt_77

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I fcing this problem in win2k advserver when I press ctrl+alt+del to put my user name and password an error pop up telling that I have limited in vitual memory when I press ok it show me again the logon screen.
it's happen again and again ..etc. with any chance to go inside the system even by safe mode to correct htis probelem.
I increase the ram and nothing change , the proble still presist.

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by mikel~t

Have you boosted your Pagefil size....I'd go to RAM + 25%....and preferably on a non system drive....

hope this helps.

Mike

by ahmed_gt_77

I can not logon to pc locally because of this error message that pop up each time then ask you again and again for user name and password .

by thechas

It is possible that there is not enough free room on the hard drive to initiate virtual memory.
Surprizing that you cannot get into safe mode though.

Move the drive as a slave onto another machine, and see how much free space there is.
If spaceis indeed low, you will need to remove enough files to give virtual memory room.
If there is a lot of free soace, the paging/swap file may be corrupt, and needs to be repaired. While you have the drive in another machine, run scandisk on the driveto correct errors.

Finally, how much RAM is on the system? I don't know if this affects W2k, but Win 9X has problems with 1GB of RAM. Some systems have problems with over 511MB.
And the symptom is similar to yours, Windows does not load.

by joseph moore

I also think that this is a problem where you do not have enough available disk space for Windows to properly generate the swapfile.
Boot up in Recovery Console and check the total bytes available. You can also delete files in RC, including any .TMP you find.
After you free up enough space, boot normally, and move the swapfile to another drive or partition.

Hope this helps.

by ahmed_gt_77

dear all ,

this problem i faced it's not related to hard disk full or not or the ram is not enough or not , i maximmize my memry and the hard disk have 10 GB free space but i don't know what the proplem came from so i reinstall win2k adv server again and this problem solved .

with best wishes
ahmed abdullah

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