NO BOOT low virtual memory

ichabod crane · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:03

I need help quick i loaded xp and my pc just keeps restarting before xp loads it just says Low Virtual memory then reboots... how do i solve this i cant get into xp to change the paging file please help thanks

marc2003 · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:05

can you start in safe mode or use the "last known good configuration" from the boot menu (press f8 to access this).

ichabod crane · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:07

safe mode does the same and these are new drives

marc2003 · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:14

i'm guessing at some point you've disabled virtual memory then? i must admit i haven't heard of this preventing xp from starting....

you mention new drives? can you go back to how your system was before and adjust the page file settings and then re-connect them?

ichabod crane · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:17

not sure which you mean i have 3 new sata drives and it wonr boot up from the C drive so i dont have a prior system state... i dont understand what is happening oh one thing i have to use two disks to load xp on as there both scratched but if i swap them about during install i can get xp installed could this of caused it?? maybe something has been missed during the swapping around

marc2003 · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:22

ichabod crane said:
not sure which you mean i have 3 new sata drives

unplug all the drives except the one windows is on. if it boots, right click my computer, properties, advanced, performance>settings, advanced tab, virtual memory>change. from there select "system managed". now shutdown the pc cleanly. re-connect the new drives and try again.

ichabod crane · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:25

i just tried that same again... its a new install i havent even got into windows yet lol... im thinking its cos i used two disks to load with will get a new xp tomoz thanks a lot marc2003

marc2003 · 20 Jan 2006 at 23:33

ichabod crane said:
its a new install i havent even got into windows yet lol.

in the future i think you need to be a little more forthcoming with the all the details....