Hi,
You can try to set your own virtual memory settings. I had some of the same
problems that you have discussed, and setting my own virtual settings
helped. A special thanks to David Pealman. To do this, you must first:
1. Go to your desk top.
2. {alt+enter} on my computer.
3. {ctrl+tab} until you here "properties".
4. tab until you here "advanced system virtual memory settings".
5. Press Enter on this.
6. You will be presented with two options. First, something like let
windows manage your virtual settings, which is probably already selected.
And the second one, which is the one you should choose, set your own memory
settings. Press enter on this.
7. In this dialog you will be presented with a minimum and a maximum value
for your virtual memory. You should set these both to 2.5 times your on
bored ram. If you have 64 megs of ram, then you should set these values to
160.
8. Press OK. You will then be presented with all sorts of dialogs, because
windows doesn't like for you to set your own virtual memory settings. Just
OK them all and all should be fine. You might have to restart your computer
for these new settings to take affect. Good luck!
Gian Pedulla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You may be my true love,
but whiskey was my first.
And if you leave me, I may die,
But it won't be of thirst."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Maguire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Big Win 98 Problems
> Hi Stephen
> I can't offer a definite solution to your peoblems, but I do make
> the following observations:
> 1. It sounds like at least some of the errors you are
> experiencing are video- and/or memory-related.
> 2. you have quite a lot of things running in the system tray, all
> of which will be using memory. I find that whenever the
> availabhel resources get below 90% I am more inclined to get
> illegal operations.
> 3. I would be hesitant to endorse the use of any version of Jaws
> prior to 3.31 with Windows 98 SE.
>
> A few suggestions:
> 1. How many colours are you using (try settings back to 256 if
> you are using 16-bit or High Colour).
> 2. In the Realplayer Preferences, uncheck the option to start
> Realplayer in the system tray.
> 3. Make sure that you don't have two versions of Jaws both loaded
> in memory at the same time (check your Startup group).
> 4. I don't use Dr Solomon's, but I have found that virus
> protection software can can need some configuring to allow Jaws
> to work properly. Try uninstalling Winguard temporarily to see if
> that makes a difference.
> 5. Have you run Scandisk and defrag recently? If not, do it now
> (if your Jaws authorization is the Everlock type, move the key
> back onto the floppy disk before you run defrag).
> 6. I had a Riva TNT video card and a SB Live sound card, and we
> found that there was some kind of conflict between them that
> would produce all kinds of weird behavour once the computer had
> been running for a while. We replaced the video card and now
> everything is fine. It may be that a similar thing is happening
> with your Trident (which chipset does it use), so keep this in
> mind if all else fails.
>
> Anyway, I hope this is of some use.
>
> Cheers
> Bruce
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 01:28:23 +1100, you wrote:
>
> >Hi List,
> >Well I think that I should list my computer details and versions of JFW
> >below and then describe the various problems that I am having with
Windows
> >98 Decond Edition.
> >
> >
> >1: Pentium 3 / 550
> >
> >2: 64 megs of ram.
> >
> >3: 17 Gig Seagate Hard Drive
> >
> >4: Trident Blade 3d 8 Meg AGP video card
> >
> >5: Operating system Windows 98 Second Edition
> >
> >
> >Versions of JFW Below.
> >
> >1: Jfw 3.3.026
> >
> >2: JFW 3.31
> >
> >3: JFW 3.5 Beta
> >
> >All problems that I will list below occur with all versions of JFW listed
> >above..
> >
> >1: I can be just running JFW any version with Internet explorer 5 and
Web
> >Ferret which I thought was'nt to much any way if I go to open another
> >programme like Eudora Light 3.06 I will get a message on the screen that
> >says something like There is not emough free memory to run this
application
> >try quitting one or more apllications and try again..
> >
> >2: I also get a nother message quite often
> >This programme has caused an ilegal operation and will be shut down if
the
> >problem persists please contact your programme vendor and I am left with
> >two buttons a Close button and a details anyway the offending programme
> >allways seems to be JFW any of the versions that I listed above..
> >
> >3: Another command that I have had appear a couple of times is something
> >like STACKS OVERLOAD
> >
> >4: Also With this computer when it boots up it says that it has 64 megs
> >of ram on the way when it is giving all the memory information on boot up
> >but once the computer has booted up and I go into My Computer / Control
> >Panel /Device Manager /Advanced memory settings it says that my system
is
> >configured for Optermal Performance but the strange thing is it says that
I
> >only have 63.0 Megs of ram.
> >
> >Is this normal?
> >
> >5: Also when the computer is sitting on the desktop after booting up
and
> >I go back into the system settings in the advanced settings area it says
> >that I have 70% resources available.
> >I have some things running in the background which are down on the system
> >tray I will list them below.
> >
> >Winguard [ Dr Solomons Virus Programme ]
> >Real Player G2
> >Netsonic [ Internet acceorator ]
> >Get right
> >Sb Live Icon
> >
> >Well that's about all the things I have running in the system tray.
> >Not a real lot I thought!
> >
> >Well here is a strange thing when I run Internet Explorer 5 and Web
Ferret
> >with any version of JFW and go to run a third programme I get the out of
> >memory message and yet when I go into the advanced system settings it
> >tells me that I still have 53% of Resouces available.
> >
> >I also tried removing all the applications that I had running in the
> >background so that there was nothing running dow on my system tray which
> >then gave me 84% of system resources available but still when I went to
run
> >the same programmes as listed above I still got the sam out of memory
> >message OH! this time I actually got load Eudora Light as well.
> >
> > I also noticed that when some memory resources is taken up by a
programme
> >and you go and quit that programme that windows 98 Second Edition does
not
> >semm to give it back like it should.
> >
> >And what about where it reports that I only have 63.0 megs of ram instead
> >of 64.
> >
> >I am only a fairly new user of Windows 98 Second Edition vut have been
> >using all versions of JFW with Win 95 and never experienced thes problems
> >before.
> >
> >Is ther any patches for Win 98 Second Edition or something that I can
> >change in JFW
> >
> >Any help would be great.
> >
> >Steve...
> >-
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>
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