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by mjsmapco

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I do get an out of memory error after opening my computer. First this occurred in win95 and continued to occurr after upgrading to win 98. I upgaded my memory to first 128 meg and then 256 meg of sdram. I still get this error only after opening my computer on the desktop. I can close everything that is open and still the error does not go away. It will persistantly calim I have no memory to run any more programs. it will also cause an invalid link or link is unavailble when I click on an icon after the error occurs. So far the only way i can clear this error is to reboot. This is an annoying error. Anyone got any other solution????

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by jwilczyn

Try to install win on a blank/formatted HD. If you will still experience problems - your hardware is faulty.
You upgraded memory - but you may have faulty motherboard.

by mjsmapco

This problem has followed through several motherboard upgardes and different hard drives. They are SCSI drives. I have deleted windows and re-installed before. So far none of these answers have solved this problem. Could it be that windows is not truly scsi friendly? Has anyone else truly exprienced this type of problem?

by gijoe

After rebooting, look at your Performance tab and see what your available resources are. Know that as you run more and more programs, this number will decrease. When it reaches a certain point, your system will drag and then hang. Closing out programs sometimes helps, but not always. Microsoft does not adequately clear programs from memory... and not all programs are written well.

Win98 has msconfig. Go to Start, Run, and type msconfig. Check selective startup and then go to the last tab and uncheck everything except systray and explore. Then open all your normal programs and see how things work. If everything works okay, then the problem is that your startup is loading too many drivers into memory and that is taking resources away from the apps you are running.

Some programs may not work when taken out of the startup tab. You can go back to msconfig, and re-check those that must be in memory for the program to work when called upon. However, most programs will operate without the pre-load on startup.

by maxwell edison

The Windows 32-bit protected-mode cache driver (Vcache) determines the maximum cache size based on the amount of RAM that is present when Windows starts. Vcache then reserves enough memory addresses to permit it to access a cache of the maximum sizeso that it can increase the cache to that size if needed. These addresses are allocated in a range of virtual addresses from 0xC0000000 through 0xFFFFFFFF (3 to 4 gigabytes) known as the system arena.

On computers with large amounts of RAM, the maximum cache size can be large enough that Vcache consumes all of the addresses in the system arena, leaving no virtual memory addresses available for other functions such as opening an MS-DOS prompt (creating a new virtual machine).

To work around this problem, use one of the following methods:

Use the MaxFileCache setting in the System.ini file to reduce the maximum amount of memory that Vcache uses to 512 megabytes (524,288 KB) or less.

For additional information about how to usethe MaxFileCache setting, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q108079 32-Bit File Access Maximum Cache Size

Use the System Configuration utility to limit the amount of memory that Windows uses to 512 megabytes (MB) or less.

For additional information about how to use the System Configuration utility, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q181966 System Configuration Utility Advanced Troubleshooting Settings

Reduce the amount of memory that is installed in your computer to 512 MB or less.

Maxwell

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