-=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes

  • From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:04:47 -0400

Gman, is there an easy way to see what memory I have installed like Belarc 
program or something?  I did set to "system managed" for virtual memory and 
looks like the custom size I had is gone, and there is a bullet mark there 
for "system managed" currently allocated 1534 now.

No other bullet circles are marked in that window.

I looked at event log viewer and saw some errors with my zonen alarm 
starting up slow, there were some warnings also error on harddisk during 
paging operation Event ID 51

I went to help and support, from start menu then to Dell support, system 
info.  I think the first time around, it had not read my computer's info and 
was showing me what came with it when I bought it, I have installed more RAM 
since purchasing it. I think then it connected somehow to my computer and 
read what was in there, would that make sense?


Christine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:50 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes


> Start > Run > eventvwr.msc
>
> I have questions about this memory info you're showing.  First, where did
> you copy this info from?  It doesn't appear to be anything that you found 
> at
> the PC maker's website.  Second, since you showed two different things, I
> have to wonder if one of your sticks is not seated properly as it 
> registered
> only one out of the two instances below.  If that's true, you're in for 
> all
> sorts of problems until it's seated correctlyinto the mainboard.  Third, I
> am curious about the arrangement of these 3 sticks as I think it may be
> imposing an unnecessary limitation on their performance.  I will look up
> your system and see if that last concern has any merit since it depends on
> whether or not your board supports dual-channel memory.  I will then offer 
> a
> suggestion or three on the idea of upgrading the RAM.  Finally, it appears
> as though there's twice the amount of Virtual Memory than what is needed.
> Did you make the change to "System managed size" like I suggested?
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:24 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: help,bluescreen yikes
>
>
>> How do I look at event viewer again, it rebooted before I could see, by
>> the
>> way, here are the results of me searching about my computer memory.
>>
>>
>> CHANNEL A 256 MB
>>
>> Channel B 256 MB
>>
>> Total slots 4
>>
>> Slots free 2
>>
>> Total memory 512 MB
>>
>> % free physical memory 51.62%
>>
>> Total page space 1537
>>
>> % free page file space  68.30%
>>
>>
>>
>> When I checked again though,
>>
>> This time it said:
>>
>>
>> Channel A DIMM 0  256 mg
>>
>> Channel B  DIMM 0 256 mg
>>
>> Channel B DIMM 1 512 mb
>>
>> Total slots 4
>>
>> Slots free 1
>>
>> Total page space 1025 MB
>>
>> % free page  file space196.58%
>>
>> Total Virtual memory 2048
>>
>> % Free virtual memory 97.96%
>>
>>
>>
>> Christine
>
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