I would let Vista handle the memory, because the error message you are
getting paradoxically is often not corrected by increasing virtual memory
which is what you meant by the term "visual memory."
It would help to know what the Blue Screen's message is sometimes, but let's
fix it. You might get a clue as to what's happening via Event Viewer. Many
things besides your virtual memory size or memory sticks cause the "not
enough memory error" including faulty software installations so it helps to
know what evokes the error.
Apparently you can boot to Windows after the Blue Screen, and you can cause
the blue screen to stay on your monitor by taking the checkmark out of
Automatic Recovery:
Windows + Pause Break key>Click Advanced System Settings on left pane with
aquamarine background>Startup and Recovery Settings button at bottom of
dialogue box>take ck. mark out of "Automatically Restart." You should be
able to restart after reading it with the Start button on your pc.
Also you can use Event Viewer to try to find the source of error since you
can boot to Windows:
1) Go to Event Viewer by typing eventvwr.msc in the run box>in left pane
click Windows Logs>Application and then System and look for events that will
have a red X and see if you can find the reason for the crash.
2)
I would try running SFC and if you need to and have the Vista DVD (MSFT
bullies most OEM named partners who sell PCs into not shipping it because
they are greedy and lack ethics leaving their end users up a creek without a
paddle when they need many of the tools to fix a no boot Vista). The man
partially responsible for this is Scott Di Valerio the OEM VP at Redmond.
He's the head of all the hard working OEM system builders and his computer
engineering background consists of his accounting practice at MSFT--he done
be accounting da money at the expense of the MSFT customer who pays one to
four grand for a computer (except Dell with Vista).
SFC or System File Checker is a bit like the spare tire in your car or a
backup battery I suppose. In Vista of course, they have changed it somewhat
and come up with a new name--Redmond stands for name it something different
twice a year and now it's part of WRP or Windows Resource Protection. It
scans protected resources including thousands of files, libraries, critical
folders, and essential registry keys, and it replaces those that are
corrupted with intact ones. It fixes a lot of problems in Windows XP, OE,
Windows Vista, Win Mail, IE6, and on Vista or if it is installed on XP, IE7.
It protects these things from changes by any source including
administrators, by keeping a spare of most of them.
How to Run SFC:
Type "cmd" into the Search box above the Start Button>and when cmd comes up
at the top of the Start menu>right click cmd and click "run as Admin" and
when the cmd prompt comes up at the cmd prompt type "sfc /scannow" no quotes
and let it run. This may fix things quite a bit. It replaces corrupt files
with intact ones, if you're not familiar with it.
If no help from SFC, you can try a restore point to before this happened or
you try the steps below if you have a Vista DVD:
3) You can try a restore point to before this happened or you try the steps
below if you have a Vista DVD:
Pressing F8 repeatedly when you seem the firmware screen may be is a generic
way to launch Windows RE on some OEM Vista computers.
Startup Repair will look like this when you put in the Vista DVD:
http://www.vistaclues.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/click-repair-your-computer.png
You run the startup repair tool this way (and system restore from here is
also sometimes effective):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925810/en-us
How To Run Startup Repair In Vista Ultimate (Multiple Screenshots)
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistaultimate/repairstartup/index.htm
I'm going to give you a bunch of links and most of them you won't have to
use, but they are alternative ways to fix Vista.
Right now I want you to put in the DVD and restart. It will automatically
take you to this on your screen:
http://www.vistaclues.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/click-repair-your-computer.png
That will allow you to go to the Vista setup that has a Repair link on the
lower left corner>click it and then you'll see a gray backgrounded list and
I want you to click Startup Repair from it and follow the directions.
The gray screen after you click the first link in the above pic will look
like this:
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winvista/images/repair/staruprepair/Image17.gif
Click Startup Repair, the link at the top and after it scans>click OK and
let it try to repair Vista. It will tell you if it does, and if not
This should work, but if not,then you can follow the alternative ways to fix
this including booting into Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key and using System
Restore.
Directions and links for alternative ways to fix this are below, but I hope
you won't need them:
If you have any questions on getting the Startup Repair done, just post
them.
If you have a Vista DVD try Startup Repair. If that doesn't work, try
SafeMode>System Restore from the Recovery Environment, and you always have
the F8 advanced options ( five of them including Last Known Good
Configuration) and a repair install (with the DVD) as well.
In addition you can use the Bootsect tool to manually repair the boot sector
by accessing the command prompt from the DVD or from F8 and typing at the
prompt:
****Ten Methods to Repair BSOD No Boots or Serious Problems in Windows
Vista****
***Startup Repair and System Restore from the Win Recovery Environment on
the DVD***
Although MSFT's Official Party Line as expressed by the Win RE team is that
Startup Repair is only to fix startups, like a lot of features rtm'd that
have broader application, so does Startup Repair. I have used it many times
to fix major systemic problems in Vista when it would still boot
successfully, and am talking with them to try to find out why they seem to
bill it as only fixing startup problems.
You can run Startup Repair by putting your Vista DVD in after theanguage
screen in setup. You can also run System Restore from the same
location.
You run the startup repair tool this way (and system restore from here is
also sometimes effective):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925810/en-us
How To Run Startup Repair In Vista Ultimate (Multiple Screenshots)
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistaultimate/repairstartup/index.htm
Note The computer must be configured to start from a CD or from a DVD. For
information about how to configure the computer to start from a CD or from a
DVD, see the information that came with the computer.
2. Restart the computer. To do this, click Start, click the arrow next to
the Lock button, and then click Restart.
This usually means that you enter bios setup by whatever key or keys
(sometimes there is more than one key that will do it for your model--go to
pc manufacturer site) and configure CD to be first in the boot order (this
will allow you to boot from the Vista DVD as well):
See for ref:
Access/Enter Motherboard BIOS (applies to Vista as well)
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
Boot Order in Bios (Set Boot from HD 1st)
http://www.short-media.com/images/mm/Articles/build_computer/bios/bios03.jpg
Note If you cannot restart the computer by using this method, use the power
button to turn off the computer. Then, turn the computer back on.
3. Set your language preference, and then click Next.
Note In most cases, the startup repair process starts automatically, and you
do not have the option to select it in the System Recovery Options menu.
4. Click Repair your computer.
5. In the System Recovery Options dialog box, click the operating system
that you want to repair, and then click Next.
6. In the System Recovery Options menu, click Startup Repair to start the
repair process.
7. When the repair process is complete, click Finish.
Additional References for Startup Repair With Screenshots:
How to Use Startup Repair:
***Accessing Windows RE (Repair Environment):***
1) Insert Media into PC (the DVD you burned)
2) ***You will see on the Vista logo setup screen after lang. options in the
lower left corner, a link called "System Recovery Options."***
Screenshot: System Recovery Options (Lower Left Link)
http://blogs.itecn.net/photos/liuhui/images/2014/500x375.aspx
Screenshot: (Click first option "Startup Repair"
http://www.leedesmond.com/images/img_vista02ctp-installSysRecOpt2.bmp
How To Run Startup Repair In Vista Ultimate (Multiple Screenshots)
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistaultimate/repairstartup/index.htm
3) Select your OS for repair.
4) Its been my experience that you can see some causes of the crash from
theWin RE feature:
You'll have a choice there of using:
1) Startup Repair
2) System Restore
3) Complete PC Restore
___________________
In addition you can use the Bootsect tool to manually repair the boot sector
by accessing the command prompt from the DVD or from F8 and typing at the
prompt:
Bootsect.exe is available from the \Boot\folder of the Windows Vista DVD and
can be run from within System Recovery or Windows XP on a dual boot.
1. Use Bootsect.exe to restore the Windows Vista MBR and the boot code that
transfers control to the Windows Boot Manager program. To do this, type the
following command at a command prompt: Drive:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All
In this command, Drive is the drive where the Windows Vista installation
media is located.
Note The boot folder for this step is on the DVD drive.
2. Use Bcdedit.exe to manually create an entry in the BCD Boot.ini file for
the earlier version of the Windows operating system. To do this, type the
following commands at a command prompt.
Note In these commands, Drive is the drive where Windows Vista is
installed. . Drive:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /create {ntldr} -d "Description
for earlier Windows version"
Note In this command, Description for earlier Windows version can be any
text that you want. For example, Description for earlier Windows version can
be "Windows XP" or "Windows Server 2003".
.. Drive:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=x:
Note In this command, x: is the drive letter for the active partition.
.. Drive:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
.. Drive:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} -addlast
3. Restart the computer.
____________________________
******Using the BootRec.exe Tool
Using the System Recovery Tool from the Repair link on the DVD after the
language choice in the lower left hand corner you can select command prompt
and you have the following options:
Bootrec.exe (You can use this tool to recover Vista even when you do not
receive the error message that is the title of the 2nd linked MSKB below):
How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to
troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us
Error message when you start Windows Vista: "The Windows Boot Configuration
Data file is missing required information"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927391/en-us
_____________________________________________________________
***Using the F8 Environment or a Repair Install from the DVD:***
Pressing F8 repeatedly when you seem the firmware screen may be is a generic
way to launch Windows RE on some OEM Vista computers.
See for ref:
Access/Enter Motherboard BIOS (Applies to Vista as well)
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm
Boot Order in Bios (Set Boot from HD 1st)
http://www.short-media.com/images/mm/Articles/build_computer/bios/bios03.jpg
Repair Install (for XP or Vista)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx
Repair Install (Method 2): (for XP or Vista)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/315341
***Taking Full Advantage of the F8 Options (Windows Advanced Options Menu)
by starting the PC and tapping F8 once per second when the firmware screen
with the pc manufacturer's name shows a few seconds after restarting***:
The F8 options in Vista are the same as XP, and the link for Safe Mode Boot
options is labled XP by MSFT but they are the same for Vista (they haven't
updated to add Vista to the title as they have with several MSKBs that apply
to both).
Again, pressing F8 repeatedly when you seem the firmware screen may be is a
generic way to launch Windows RE on some OEM Vista computers.
You could also:
Think: I have 4 different ways to get back my XP at F8 and try 'em in order.
1) Safe Mode 2) Safe Mode with Cmd to Sys Restore which is simply a cmd
prompt in safe mode 3) Safe Mode with Neworking 4) LKG or Last Known Good
Configuration
Try to F8 to the Windows Adv Options Menu>try 3 safe modes there (I don't
use WGA) and Last Known Good>then I go to Win RE in Vista. That gives you a
choice of Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking,and Safe Mode with Command
Prompt.
These methods are outlined in
A description of the Safe Mode Boot options in Windows XP/and Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/
Frequently Asked Questions Regarding System Restore from MSFT:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx
System Restore can be run from the Win RE recovery environment from the same
link as Startup Repair, and sometimes it will work from one F8 safe mode
location or from the Win Recovery Environment when it won't work from other
locations.
How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449
Repair Install: (This option has the best chance of succeeding and it
preserves everything in your OS--you do not lose anything with this option):
Make sure the DVD you have is a Vista DVD. Many OEMs will send you a
Recovery DVD and it may restore you to factory settings, but a high
percentage of the time it does not in my experience.
Pitfalls: If the DVD came from friend or relative or P2P, you may have
problems. P2P besides being illlegal in many countries including the U.S.
can be corrupt. If CD came from friend or relative, they may have given
you the CD to use but if product key is in use, MSFT is not going to accept
it for activation. Make sure you clean the CD carefully using proper
cleaning fluid and strokes that radiate from center like spokes on a wheel.
Again a repair install has the most likely chance to succeed in XP, (and can
work in Vista) but you need
to have a Vista DVD.
First, in order to do a Repair Install You must boot to the bios setup and
position booting from the "CD" first in the boot order--it probably will not
say DVD but might.
Booting to Bios Setup:
For 85% of PC's and all Dells you can tap the F2 key to reach bios setup.
How To Enable DVD/CD Rom Support (put CD boot first) in bios setup boot
order:
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_enable_cdrom_support_i.htm
Screen Shot of bios setup boot order:
http://www.poy.net/proxy/bios2.jpg
Repair Install Does Not Lose Anything; you may need to try 2-3 times but
that's rare.
How To Repair Install (Applies to Vista as well as XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341#XSLTH3127121122120121120120
Screen Shot Repair Install
http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winxppro/installxpcdrepair/indexfullpage.htm
Good luck,
CH
As an added treat, here's Maureen Dowd's column from today's NYT:
MAUREEN DOWD: Outing the Out of Touch
WASHINGTON
Be honest. Who would you rather share a foxhole with: a gay soldier or Mitt
Romney?
A gay soldier, of course. In a dicey situation like that, you need someone
steadfast who knows who he is and what he believes, even if he’s not allowed
to say it out loud.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue, as the gloriously gay Oscar
Wilde said. And gays are the sacrifice that hypocritical Republican
candidates offer to placate “values†voters — even though some candidates
are not so finicky about morals regarding their own affairs and divorces.
They may coo over the photo of Dick Cheney, whose re-election campaign
demonized gays, proudly smiling with his new grandson, the first baby of his
lesbian daughter, Mary.
But they’ll hold the line, by jiminy, against gay Americans who are willing
to die or be horribly disfigured in the cursed Bush/Cheney war in Iraq.
Peter Pace, whose job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff became a
casualty of Iraq on Friday, asserted in March that homosexual acts “are
immoral.†Yet in May, he wrote a letter to the judge in the Scooter Libby
case, pleading for leniency for the Cheney aide. Scooter always looked for
“the right way to proceed — both legally and morally,†General Pace wrote of
the man who lied to a grand jury about the outing of a spy, after he pumped
up the fake case for the war that has claimed the lives of 3,500 young men
and women serving under the general.
At the G.O.P. debate in New Hampshire last week, the contenders were more
homophobic than the mobsters on “The Sopranos,†unanimously supporting the
inane “don’t ask, don’t tell†policy. Even Rudy Giuliani, who loves to
cross-dress and who stayed with old friends, a gay couple, to avoid Gracie
Mansion when his second marriage was disintegrating, had an antediluvian
answer.
Wolf Blitzer asked him about the Arabic linguists trained by the government
who have been ousted from the military after being outed.
Mr. Giuliani, who procured three deferments to avoid Vietnam, replied that,
with the war in Iraq raging, “This is not the time to deal with disruptive
issues like this.â€
If he’s so concerned with disruptive issues, maybe he should start worrying
about this one: Two straight guys who slithered out of going to Vietnam are
devising a losing strategy in Iraq year after year. W. and Dick Cheney have
fouled things up so badly that Robert Gates and Tony Snow are now pointing
to South Korea — where American troops have stayed for over half a century —
as a model.
Mitt Romney agreed with Rudy on the issue. Instead of going to Vietnam, Mr.
Romney spent two and a half years doing Mormon missionary work in France.
Isn’t that like doing Peace Corps work in Monte Carlo?
At the memorial for Mark Bingham, the gay 6-foot-5 rugby player who was on
Flight 93 on 9/11, John McCain said he might owe his life to the young man
who helped fight the hijackers, bringing down the plane aiming to crash into
the Capitol.
But Senator McCain wants gay troops to stay closeted. The policy, he said,
is “working.†But it’s not. The Army in Iraq is like that exhausted nag
Scarlett O’Hara whipped on to Tara. Yet Republicans surge on, even as they
expel gays.
In a Times Op-Ed piece Friday, Stephen Benjamin, a gay Arabic translator
eager to go to Iraq, told how he was dismissed when the Navy learned his
status. “Consider,†he wrote. “More than 58 Arabic linguists have been
kicked out since ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ was instituted. How much valuable
intelligence could those men and women be providing today to troops in harm’s
way?â€
He noted that 11,000 other service members have been shoved out since 1993
and speculated that if the Army had not been so short of Arabic translators,
the cables that went untranslated on Sept. 10, 2001, might have been
translated, preventing 9/11.
In 2000, the British military began letting anyone who served say if they
were “a poof,†as one squadron leader put it. Sarah Lyall wrote in The Times
that the military reports that none of its fears “about harassment, discord,
blackmail, bullying or an erosion of unit cohesion or military effectiveness
have come to pass.â€
America has been Will-and-Graced since Bill Clinton had his kerfuffle on the
issue in 1993. Tolerance has blossomed, especially among younger Americans.
According to a Pew poll, 4-in-10 Americans say they have close friends or
relatives who are gay.
The Republican field seems stale and out of sync. They should have listened
to the inimitable Barry Goldwater, who told it true: You don’t have to be
straight to shoot straight.
