My computer died
I've been getting a frequent warning that I have low virtual memory. But I don't. I've raised it as high as the computer will accept, and I've moved all the crap off the drive that has windows, and I still get this warning from time to time. It's not a new computer in computer life span terms, but it wouldn't be, since it's runnign xp pro. I don't have the wherewithal to replace the compuet and I don't think I want to, since I'm running all ancient (in computer lifespan terms) programs -- Word Perfect 10, Paintshop 9, Sims 2, various fanmade auxiliary programs for the Sims 2.
System information:
xp pro 5.1.26, service pack 3
2 Gb RAM
Processor: Intel Core Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz/ Version:x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13/Speed:2393 MHz
The drive that windows is on has 80 Gb used, 69 Gb free, while all the drives have 302 Gb free and 387 Gb free
As for the virtual memory, it's currentlhy set, apparently, at the highest the computer will recognize, because I tried to set it higher and this is what it actually did:
Drive C is set at 4995, and the other two drives are "system managed size" because trying to set them at a numerical value caused the computer to flip out and insist that the virtual memory is low. The "recommended" size for the C drive was 3039, but that resulted in constant low virtual memory warnings and program slowdowns, hangs and crashes, as opposed to the occasional ones I get now.
I got an apparenly non-genius idea to change the instructions to "clear virtual memory pagefile at shudown" because i sounded like maybe there was an accumulation issue goin on and I didn't bother to find ou what this really means (not that). So now I know it wouldn't have helped.
But the next thing that happened is that I tried to restart the computer and . . . i just didn't. Not a peep. Well, the motor turns on, bu the drive doesn't read, and the operating system doesn't load. It doesn't load from a system disk either. And none of the shenanigans I have encountered to get to the menu work either.
The computer just sits there.
I do have this battered laptop that Frank took back and forth to Prague for four and a half years, so I can write. And all my work is backed up and off the dead computer.
But no moe sims for a while, I guess.
System information:
xp pro 5.1.26, service pack 3
2 Gb RAM
Processor: Intel Core Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz/ Version:x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13/Speed:2393 MHz
The drive that windows is on has 80 Gb used, 69 Gb free, while all the drives have 302 Gb free and 387 Gb free
As for the virtual memory, it's currentlhy set, apparently, at the highest the computer will recognize, because I tried to set it higher and this is what it actually did:
Drive C is set at 4995, and the other two drives are "system managed size" because trying to set them at a numerical value caused the computer to flip out and insist that the virtual memory is low. The "recommended" size for the C drive was 3039, but that resulted in constant low virtual memory warnings and program slowdowns, hangs and crashes, as opposed to the occasional ones I get now.
I got an apparenly non-genius idea to change the instructions to "clear virtual memory pagefile at shudown" because i sounded like maybe there was an accumulation issue goin on and I didn't bother to find ou what this really means (not that). So now I know it wouldn't have helped.
But the next thing that happened is that I tried to restart the computer and . . . i just didn't. Not a peep. Well, the motor turns on, bu the drive doesn't read, and the operating system doesn't load. It doesn't load from a system disk either. And none of the shenanigans I have encountered to get to the menu work either.
The computer just sits there.
I do have this battered laptop that Frank took back and forth to Prague for four and a half years, so I can write. And all my work is backed up and off the dead computer.
But no moe sims for a while, I guess.