PROBLEM WITH PAGEFILE SIZE

[Guest]

AFTER INSTALLING WINDOWS XP SP1 AND OFFICE 2003 I'M HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE
PAGEFILE SIZE. THE PC EVERY NOW AND THEN RESTARTS AND I GET AN ERROR WITH
MINIDUMP FILE WHICH I SEND TO MICROSOFT OFF COURSE.

DOES SOMEBODY KNOW HOW TO HELP?

P.S. I HAVE SELECTED THE PAGEFILE TO BE AUTOMATICALLY CHANGED BY THE SYSTEM
EACHSELF.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

What is the exact error message and when does it occur?



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[Guest]

My physical memory ram is 512mb. Well i setted the minimum size at
768*2=1536mb and the maximum at 1536*2=3072mb. The error message goes like
this: the system has recover from a serious error.....For more information
check the report.....And in the technical information it refers the minidump
file. The problem although i changed the default values in the pagefile size
remains. What is causing this problem?

Thank You!

 

[Alex Nichol]

My physical memory ram is 512mb. Well i setted the minimum size at
768*2=1536mb and the maximum at 1536*2=3072mb. The error message goes like
this: the system has recover from a serious error.....For more information
check the report.....And in the technical information it refers the minidump
file. The problem although i changed the default values in the pagefile size
remains. What is causing this problem?

Probably something quite unrelated to the page file. In any case I
would regard the initial size you have set for that as grossly too much.
(see my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm). Try 256 initial and say
1000 Max. Then you have something that is crashing and the system's
'automatically restart' is cutting in. Turn this off: in Control Panel
- System - Advanced, click Settings in the Startup and Recovery section.
There uncheck 'automatically restart'. You may now get a Blue screen
failure instead, but at least will get some guidance as to what is
happening. Quite likely a driver - see the bottom line of the Blue
screen for something.sys then look for it in system32\drivers and take
its properties