Unable to set Page File in Windows XP

ddickenson

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I have justed installed Windows XP and SP2 on a new hard drive.
When restarting I get a message "Limited Virtual Memory". I go into the performance options and it says Total paging file size for all drives 0MB.
I change the size to 2MB initial and 382MB Max. (256MB memory) on Custom. When I reboot the same happens and the size for all drives is still 0MB.

Any ideas.
 
do you have enough free space?
how many partitions do you have?
how much ram do you have?

i suggest you put the pagefile on C for testing, unless you're out of room put it on another drive

give the page file a static size, initial=512 and max=512, then reboot

to see if the page file is actually being created, go to control panel, folder options, view tab, enable "show protected system files" and show hidden files / folders, then look in the drive where you specified the C drive, there should be a file called pagefile.sys, the size should be 512mb
 
On further investigation. The page file problem was due to some drivers I installed off the Mother Board CD. If I don't install these drivers. I get a Stop Error on reboot of 0x00000024 (0x00190203,0x81B86AE0,0xc0000102,0x00000000)

If I restore back to before SP2 everything is OK.
I have tried 2 different new 80GB hard drives(Hitachi Deskstar) and both give the same problem. I have tried installing the new drive in a different PC with SP2 and this works OK. If I use and old 10GB drive and reinstall XP and SP2 everything is OK.

My System is an Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHZ Processor with 256MB Ram on an INTEL Desktop M/B D845WN

Thanks

David
 
do a clean install of windows and don't use the cd for the motherboard's drivers, install them from intel's website instead so u don't get the bluescreen