I have recently needed to install a new software package that has the minimum requirements of 133 Mhtz proc. 64 MB ram and 80 MB harddisk. I installed it on a 233 Mhtz proc. 128 MB ram and 6 GB hdd running win98SE. The package installed fine. This program requires me to import info in the form of a text file that is in a fixed length in format. The file is 2mb in size. The first time we ran the import it worked fine. Since then the program freezes after getting through 420 of the 2100 records. Checking the End task menu, it shows the program as not responding and windows is unusable until it is ended. I had ended its task closing the program, but when I tried to open another program I got running low on memory error. I shutdown, waited a few seconds for the memory to dump and rebooted. Reattempted the import. Exact same results. I added more Ram (32MB) and still same results. I contacted their tech support and they said it was a problem with the way Windows was handling the memory. They instucted me to break down the file into 5 seperate files and the import eventually worked but took forever to set up all of the files. Their old version, which is no longer supported imported this file just fine on a substantionallyolder PC. I installed a small program that displays the amount of real time memory that is available and it shows after I started the import that I had 64 MB of memory available. This makes me believe that the Tech person was full of crap. Can anyone tell me how to attempt a fix or if this tech is correct? And if he is correct, please explain how win98se handles its memory. I know the difference between virtual mem and hardware mem so no need to explain there. By the way the RAm is SDRam 133 mhtz. FBS is the same.
