Thanks Don, Will do all you said. I also am wondering about an old vid card I still have inside of an old computer that may be able to be used in this computer. I have never put a vid card in but have done memory so maybe similar to do? I took pics of the old card in my old computer and will upload later to our site for pics here to see which is the vid card and I also have an old sound card in there both are probably better than what is in this one but will see. This system has windows XP home on it and I believe I have 2 gigs of RAM. I have 17.2 gig free space on hard drive. How can I see how much memory it is showing I have? thanks, christy ----- Original Message ----- From: "dsw32952" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 11:03 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: blue screen, help > When you using an onboard video card adapter you are using *system* > memory to do video work. Normally, system BIOS or a system utility will > dynamically allocate memory to video use depending on the demand for > memory by both the system and the adapter. > > If you are running XP or Vista basic and have less than 1GB of RAM or > any other Vista with less than 2 GB of RAM I would immediately suspect > lack of memory as at least a contributing factor if not the cause of the > problem. FWIW I would suggest that you RAM should be at least double > those numbers. > > The BIOS may have a setting that will allow you to specify the minimum > and/or the maximum to allocate to video. Check that setting. Also, > check the minimum system requirements for your Pinnacle software. > > Before you buy a new video card check the system requirements for the > card... especially the power supply requirements. Many of the new cards > require a *lot* of power and you might also need a new power supply to > support a new card. > > Don > > > cristy wrote: >> Gman, >> >> I had the same issue when using pinnacle with the last vid card that was >> in >> here (GE force 5200 one) but I do not recall if the issue ever resolved, >> in >> fact seems I had just more problems after trying to update it.. so just >> go >> to the intell site and upgrade the display adapter? What is a display >> adapter, is it part of the vid card? Also I think later tonight I will >> take >> pics of the old vid card in an old computer and ask you guys if that >> mighth >> work in this computer and be better than the onboard vid card esp for my >> vid >> editing purposes. I need to go to intell.com I guess for this update. >> >> >> >> thanks, >> christy >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:37 AM >> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: blue screen, help >> >> >> >>> OXOOOOOO8E (OXCOOOOOO5, etc. is actually 0X0000008E (0XC0000005, etc.. >>> Those a zeros rather than CAP 'O'. >>> >>> Without the actual text that is shown after the word 'STOP:', it harder >>> to >>> get a lock on the specific issue here. But a search on the first part >>> of >>> the codes (the first two codes are issue specific, the last three are >>> system >>> specific) tells us the following: >>> >>> A kernel mode program generated an exception which the error handler >>> didn't >>> catch. These are nearly always hardware compatibility issues (which >>> sometimes means a driver issue or a need for a BIOS upgrade) >>> >>> ialmdev5.dll is part of your Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver, which >>> does >>> the translating for your onboard graphics chip. >>> >>> So, update your graphics driver and this issue should go away. >>> >>> Peace, >>> Gman >>> >>> > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and > everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: > //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk > OR > To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to > pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. 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