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More info?)
Mike M wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Whilst Win9x operating system such as Win Me can handle up to 2GB of RAM
> (although often there are problems with greater than 1GB) it is essential
> to limit the virtual cache to no more than 512MB since if you allow the
> cache to exceed 512MB this will mean that you run out of upper memory
> addresses and get Out of Memory errors. Note that this will still mean
> that all memory is available to applications but is simply limiting the
> amount used as virtual cache memory See KB 253912 - ""Out of Memory"
> Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed"
> (http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=253912).
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your reply and sorry about my own tardy reply. For some
reason I did not have any problems booting up this time. I now have
640 MB of RAM with ME and am having no significant problems. I
initially installed the new 512 MB card by itself and got the following
message when I booted up.
Scanregw has caused an error in SCANREGW.EXE. Scanregw will now close.
When I tried to start MS Explorer I got a message that it had
encountered a problem and would close. This was followed by the ``Send
Error Report'', ``Don't Send'' options. I had no problem with Netscape
and the MS Explorer problem went away, for the most part, when I
rebooted. It still happens unexpectedly at times which is why I am
writing this through Netscape.
When I added an additional 128 MB (one of the two old cards I had), I
got a bunch of error messages such as.
Windows encountered an error accessing the registry and will repair the
registry for you and restart the computer.
WinWord has caused an error in VBE.DLL and will now close.
ExCel has caused an error in VBA332.DLL and will now close.
wmiexe has caused an error in KERNEL32.DLL and will now close.
However after a couple more reboots, everything seems to be working OK.
No problems with MS Word, MS ExCel or MS PowerPoint.
Regarding Virtual Memory, I have it set for Windows to handle that. I
could not find Virtual Cache under Help.
Thanks again,
Peter.