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by archer1969

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ok, i have an asus A7S333 MB, CPU atholon XP2100+ set at 1733speed, WIN XP home edit.., 256mb ddr333 pc 2700, 60gig maxitor (7200) HD (30gig = c:\..15gig=D:\..15 gig= E:\ ), ATI 8500 128mb video card, on board sound.i have the page filing sys set to 4000 for each logical drive and C:......... just about 1 time every hour my pc will crash and an error will pop up saying
**** PHYSICAL MEMORY DUMP*** what in the sam hell is going on!!! i brought this board and processor cause its matched to WINXP.
i dont know what to do!
any help would be very APPR........

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by dave.osborne

What are you doing when it crashes? Same thing or something different? Do you scan regularly for viruses? Have you check your RAM to make sure some of the chips aren't bad? I assume when you say 4000, you mean 4 GB of virtual memory ... isn't that a little too much? Not sure how that would interact with your problem, but try setting it a little lower, around 1.5 - 2 GB.

Hope some of this helps.

-Dave

by rcom

Your saying the page file is set to 4000MB? Your page file should be 1-1/2 times the size of installed ram.

Example, if you have 256 MB of RAM, the minimum size would be 384, the maximum size would be 1152.
You can increase the max but WOW 4GB is a little large.

Or change back to letting windows handle the pagefile and see if you get the same error message.

For more info, please read the following article at microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314482

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