No buffer space available

[Haim Guivon]

After a few hours of being connected to my provider over an ASDL line, the
connection is broken, and any attempt of redial does not succeed. Sometimes
even the connection dialer shows that the connection is alive, but it is not
and clicking the connection does not elicite any reaction!.

After a while, the whole machine becomes unusable and when I want to use an
application I receive the message of the subject: no buffer space available.
Even turning off the computer in the usual way is not possible ("not enough
resources"). Only a hot reboot can start anew.

The frustrating thing is that this a problem which appeared after I
formatted my disk and set up new dial-up connection to my provider. It
wasn't present before, so I guess that something was not done in the right
way.

I'll appreciate any advice, thank you very much,
haim

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

the netsh command in SP2 can rebuild the Winsock catalog. Open the command
prompt and type:
netsh winsock reset catalog
then press ENTER.

 

[Haim Guivon]

Thank you very much. I did as directed, and I'm trying to understand the
netsh command and all its possibilities.

Unfortunately, it does not help and I still must reboot the computer after a
few hours of being connected to my ISP. This did not happen before my new
formatted disk. I'd like to know what is the reason.

Thanks,
haim
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the netsh command in SP2 can rebuild the Winsock catalog. Open the command
prompt and type:
netsh winsock reset catalog
then press ENTER.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Post format, I think it's a logical argument that something is relic in the
BIOS. Certainly, a new copy of the registry should not be buffering
something. The point of the IE cache is that it has a FIFO overflow design,
and would not cause that.

 

[Haim Guivon]

Thank you, Mark. So, I took a look at my BIOS settings, and I didn't find
anything that could cause this behaviour.

About IE, I understand what you write; moreover, this buffer overflow occurs
even if IE is not running. The sole fact of being connected to the phone
line (ADSL), is enough to cause this behaviour, and it takes about two hours
to disrupt the computer funcionality.

So, I think that it might be something about my connection settings. I've
been trying to find a cue in connection "properties", to no avail. Maybe
something can give me a new idea?

TIA,
haim

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Post format, I think it's a logical argument that something is relic in the
BIOS. Certainly, a new copy of the registry should not be buffering
something. The point of the IE cache is that it has a FIFO overflow design,
and would not cause that.