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07-27-2004, 11:02 AM
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The Preacher Man
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E Machine
Bud brought his PC over running XP. Takes forever to boot and message about low virtual memory pops up. I restart in Safe Mode and same thing.
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07-27-2004, 11:07 AM
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PCMech: Saving Lives
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Increase virtual memory? (Right Click My Computer, Propeties, Advanced, Settings (Under perfromance), Advanced, Manage.
Other than that you could add more ram, and stop services according to BlackVipers site.
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07-27-2004, 12:51 PM
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Check for spyware. That's a usual culprit for clogging up RAM and in extreme cases, spilling over to virtual memory.
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07-28-2004, 03:12 PM
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The Preacher Man
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When I can get into Safe Mode I ran Ad Aware and Spybot (he had installed) but old updates. Found a bunch of junk but no help. Won't boot into regular mode so can't get any updates. I'm running WinXP defrag from Safe Mode and so far it's at 50% after 3 hours. Maybe that will help?? I popped open his Cd player and found a "recovery disk" but was disk 2 of 2 with only drivers. He doesn't know how that got in there and can't find disk 1. He said to reinstall everything but disk 1 needed. I'm purt near at a loss.
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07-28-2004, 04:01 PM
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was getting that error on a friends comp. worked the whole spyware/virus thing for a while. ended up reformating for him too. good luck. have him call emachines. i lost my recovery disks once, and called hp and they sent me another set for like 25 bucks. kinda expensive, but still better than buying xp new.
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07-28-2004, 04:58 PM
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The Preacher Man
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Defrag helped in loading time but now an error pops up saying it can't verify the license and just sits there. A crap PC, or whoever goofed it up.
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07-29-2004, 09:22 AM
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Got into BIOS and CD was already selected as first boot but doesn't happen; that and no option for floppy boot leaves a reinstall out of the question. Keep thinking there's a way to make this thing work but all roads are dead-ends. Am I missing something?
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07-30-2004, 05:35 PM
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sounds like a bad cdrom but--i had one that wouldn't boot from cd until out of desperation i disabled boot from HD and floppy in bios, it then booted and installed the os. don't seem reasonable but desperate situations leads to unreasonable solutions.
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07-30-2004, 06:12 PM
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Don't give up Sarge. I had one that kept doing the same thing. I kept going back to set-up, resetting to boot from CD ROM, exit saving changes, over and over again and it finally went POP! and booted from the disk.
I've seen this on several occasions with virus or spyware-infected computers. Sometimes it just takes persistance. -Kev |
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