With 128 megabytes of memory, you shouldn't be having memory shortage problems, even with ME. Agreeably, ME is probably not the strongest Operating System Microsoft ever produced, but it did (at least some of) the job.

You may be short of "virtual" memory. If you Right-Click on "My Computer", and then click on Properties and then Advanced, you will see how large the "Paging File" is. That information is usefull.

Also, on your blue screens, if you could copy down what is written on it and post that information.

With a little more information, maybe we can help you.

Charles,
Tag # 6VMY111

Dimension 8200, Bios A03
1.8 ghz P4
512 mb Rambus Ram
80 gb HD primary, 20 gb HD secondary
NVidia GEForce3 TI200
Dell M991 monitor
Samsung 308b DVD/CDRW combo
Telephony modem
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound (4161 beta driver)
Altec Lansing ADA995 (1BT)
Windows XP Home
(Multibooted with Win98, Win2000, OS/2, Linux)
Roxio Easy CDCreator 5.1.0.104 (platinum)
Office XP Pro (retail)
Power DVD 4 (retail upgrade)
Norton SystemWorks 2002 (retail)

Lisa.

You do not have a virtual memory problem with 10gb available on your C drive.

This type of problem (blue screen and hang) coulf be related to the drivers in your system (which cards you have.)

If you could post your complete configuration, also. What is most important is which cards are installed in the machine: video, network, modem, etc.

Charles,
Tag # 6VMY111

Dimension 8200, Bios A03
1.8 ghz P4
512 mb Rambus Ram
80 gb HD primary, 20 gb HD secondary
NVidia GEForce3 TI200
Dell M991 monitor
Samsung 308b DVD/CDRW combo
Telephony modem
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound (4161 beta driver)
Altec Lansing ADA995 (1BT)
Windows XP Home
(Multibooted with Win98, Win2000, OS/2, Linux)
Roxio Easy CDCreator 5.1.0.104 (platinum)
Office XP Pro (retail)
Power DVD 4 (retail upgrade)
Norton SystemWorks 2002 (retail)

Kanuk001 wrote:

- You may be short of "virtual" memory. If you
- Right-Click on "My Computer", and then click on
- Properties and then Advanced, you will see how large
- the "Paging File" is. That information is usefull.

Well, I don't get the same screens/choices you have. When I click on Properties, I get a dialogue box with the following tabs: General, Device Manager, Hardware Profiles, Performance. I clicked on Performance and got the following status: Memory 127.0 MB of RAM; System Resources 70% free; File System 32-bit; Virtual Memory 32-bit; Disk Compression not installed; PC Cards (PCMCIA) no PC Card sockets are installed.

Also on this screen, "Your system is configured for optimal performance." Uh, not.

More buttons on the "Performance" screen: File System, Graphics, Virtual Memory. Under Virtual Memory, my system is set to "Let Windows manage my virtual memory settings." It does allow for manual virtual memory settings based on the following: Hard Disk, c:\10992MB free; Minimum, 0; Maximum, No maximum. I can also elect to disable virtual memory. I changed nothing.

- Also, on your blue screens, if you could copy down
- what is written on it and post that information.

Naturally, today there have been no blue screens (the day is still young!) but it has frozen up completely once (blank, beige screen).

Thanks for your reply, Charles. I'll try to capture any information this blasted box will give me and promptly post it here.

--
Lisa

Here is a convenient tool for doing this:
http://www.belarc.com/Download.html
It will create a report that you can paste into a message (you can probably leave out the info at the end about what applications you have).

By the way, it sounds to me like you are headed toward reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything--I hope you have all your original cd's...
HeritageMinis wrote:
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- Kanuk001 wrote:
-- If you could post your complete configuration, also.
-- What is most important is which cards are installed
-- in the machine: video, network, modem, etc.
-
- I'd be happy to. Where do I find this information?
- When I said I was a computer dummy, I wasn't
- joking...
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---
- Lisa
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Dimension L550r
Win98 SE
384 MB SDRAM
80GB Seagate Barracuda IV HD
40GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus HD
Samsung SD-608 DVD-Rom
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 32MB PCI
Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V
Aztech MDP3880-W 56k PCI Modem


Message Edited on 04/16/02 08:34AM by sonoffred

Kanuk001 wrote:
- If you could post your complete configuration, also.
- What is most important is which cards are installed
- in the machine: video, network, modem, etc.

I'd be happy to. Where do I find this information? When I said I was a computer dummy, I wasn't joking...

--
Lisa

sonoffred wrote:
- Here is a convenient tool for doing this:
- http://www.belarc.com/Download.html

Spiffy! I'm copying the pertinent parts below.

- By the way, it sounds to me like you are headed
- toward reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling
- everything--I hope you have all your original
- cd's...

I do but it is still something I'd rather not think about tackling myself...sounds like it bites.

--
Lisa


The report: (kinda jumbled -- hope you can make sense of it)

Operating System System Model
Windows Millennium Edition Dell Computer Corporation L866r
System Service Tag: 5G2PB01
Asset Tag: 5G2PB01
Chassis Serial Number: 5G2PB01
Processor a Main Circuit Board
866 megahertz Intel Pentium III
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation CA810E AAA01025-310
Serial Number: 0007157X124610CO02DZ
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. A09 11/13/2000
Drives Memory Modules
19.99 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
11.54 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LG CD-RW CED-8080B [CD-ROM drive]
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")

Maxtor 32049H2 (20.00 GB) [Hard drive] -- drive 0 128 Megabytes Installed Memory
128 Megabyte Module Size - 1 Installed
One Memory Socket is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 19.99 GB 11.54 GB free

Network Drives


Controllers Printers
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Intel 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller
Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)Canon MultiPASS C555 Fax on USBPRN01
Canon MultiPASS C555 Printer on USBPRN01
Capture Mono Fax BVRP on FAX BVRP:

Display
Intel(r) 82810E Graphics Controller [Display adapter]
Dell E770s [Monitor]
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel(r) 82801AA USB Universal Host Controller Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64V (WDM)
Communications Other Devices
Conexant HCF V90 56K Data Fax PCI Modem
Standard 28800 bps Modem
AOL Adapter
Microsoft Virtual Private Networking Adapter Conexant PCI Modem Enumerator
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
WheelMouse1 (PS/2)
Canon MultiPASS C555
USB Root Hub