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10791
July 31st, 2008 16:00
Virtual Memory too low
For the past few days, I've been getting this little pop-up thing that says my computer's virtual memory is too low. So I googled the problem and I upped the amount of memory and I've been playing with the levels for the past few days. But yesterday I read that messing with the levels too much can cause a hard drive crash, which would be my computer's second hard drive crash in 6 months!!! My computer is definatly starting to slow down significantly. What should I do?
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wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 22:00
Hi,
It would be best for you to post your computer specs so that someone or I can make a conclusion towards your problem.
Austin
wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 22:00
Hi,
From what i have seen on notebook forums you are ok. since you have more Ram your hard drive wont be accessed as much. If you had a small amount of ram your hard drive would be accessed all the time and would eventually crash.
Austin
wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 22:00
Hi,
didnt mean to post two. I didnt see it posted so i made another one and then now i just saw both
wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 22:00
Hi,
If your system has to much memory it wont harm the hard drive. If your have a small amount of memory the hard drive is going to be accessed more often rather than having more ram and your hard drive wont be accessed as much.
From what i hear on notebook forums you are ok.
Austin
starxinxthexsky
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July 31st, 2008 22:00
Oops Sorry.
I have a Dell Insprion E 1505 Laptop. I bought it in August 2006. It runs Windows XP.
I recently suffered a hard drive crash and put in a 160GB SATA Hard drive I believe.
I don't recall what the original paging memory was set at, but I currently have the intial set at 4000MB and the Maximum set at 12000MB.
wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 23:00
Hi,
Random Access memory (RAM) is a component that stores data of the software that you are currently running.
What i meant about the accessing of the hard drive is that the computer accesses the information that is stored on the hard drive in order to launch a program. With a hard drive that runs at 7200rpm's allows more data to be sent out for faster performance on your system.
wildhogs3
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July 31st, 2008 23:00
Hi,
Virtual memory is RAM.
Austin
starxinxthexsky
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July 31st, 2008 23:00
Thank you very much for your help!! I think I am a little confused though...I have plenty of room in my hard drive. I couldn't fill a 160GB hard drive in a million years so I don't mind if some of it is used for memory. But what does the virtual memory do? What do you mean by accessing the hard drive?