Hi all, on a new PC for a customer here, I have something happening I've never seen before. I cannot run scandisk! when I try to run it, it says "not enough physical memory"!!! And NOTHING is running in the BG either! I have been searching for this problem and no surprise, all the links are bad at that idiot MS website! Using search engines all I have been able to find that is NOT about "quit programs running in the background...etc, etc" is for win95 and I don't understand it: ---------------------- SYMPTOMS When you try to run ScanDisk, you may receive the following error message:
Your computer does not have enough available memory to run ScanDisk now. Quit some running programs, then try running ScanDisk again. CAUSE This error can occur if system policies have been enabled on the computer, and the profile for the current user includes the "Hide Drives in My Computer" restriction. RESOLUTION The "Hide Drives in My Computer" restriction must be disabled before the current user can run ScanDisk. Contact your System Administrator, or have someone with the correct privileges log on to the computer and run ScanDisk. ---------------------- I don't know what they are talking about there. I changed the memory settings in the BIOS and that didn't help. The pc shows the correct amount of RAM @ 128mb, and all resources are over 95%! At boot up there are 98% system resources available. I tried another stick of memory, and the same thing happens. Mobo is FIC SD11, 750mhz slot A Athlon & 128mb RAM, OS is win98 and it was just formatted. I HAVE used these mobo's before and never seen this problem with any of them. Scandisk will not even run in safe mode! Defrag also will not run. No yellow marks in the DM. Scandisk can be run in DOS OK. The PC works perfectly, all drivers were installed w/o a hitch, it seems totally normal in every other aspect! Other devices are a Diamond S100 PCI sound card, DLink NIC, STB Nitro II AGP video card. The mobo's drivers off the CD were the first things installed. HD is western digital Caviar WD172AA, 17.2gb, UDMA 66, 2mb buffer. All components are new. "Power Management APM" is disabled in the BIOS. Have also tried manual memory settings, as well as auto by SPD. Thanks for any info, -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
