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Low MEM XP and big HDD's
knave:
Check the settings for virtual memory and page file.
Sounds like the system is trying to use virtual memory but there isn't enough space on the HD. Regardless whenever a hard drive nears capacity windows can freak out. Try a defrag, check the settings and free up a bit more space. (you need a new drive in there anyway.)
Enjoy the new rig.
protokatie:
--- Quote from: knave on October 12, 2009, 04:05:47 pm ---Check the settings for virtual memory and page file.
Sounds like the system is trying to use virtual memory but there isn't enough space on the HD. Regardless whenever a hard drive nears capacity windows can freak out. Try a defrag, check the settings and free up a bit more space. (you need a new drive in there anyway.)
Enjoy the new rig.
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The VM was set to the 15 GB HD I had the OS on, and had plenty of space. From what I (as well as a coworker) could tell was that the computer didn't have enough RAM to store the external drives bitmap, so when one (plus its backup) got near full and then I added two new drives, the computer had to start using the VM on the 15GB drive just to hold the bitmap of the 4 external drives. This caused major thrashing as it would have to use the system HDD just to look up entries in the bitmap for even the simplest of tasks for the external drive.
256 MB on a machine running XP pro (TinyXP) with a bunch of support software... It just needed more...
BTW The new rig works great, not a single problem even with the full drives. What one can get for 300 bucks these days is insane!
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