Hi
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop (1.7Pentium M, 1gig memory, 80gig WD HDD, Geforce 6800 256mb GFX). I have never had a problem with it until 3-4 months ago.
About 8 months ago I got my first Mac at home and now I use that all the time, except when I want to play the odd game which I use my Dell for. Since getting my Macbook Pro, I have always left my Dell on, sitting idling so that when I wanted to play a game i just opened the lid and there it was ready to go. Randomly I started getting problems with it - that, after it had been idling - when i came to use it, it would bascially mean me having to restart. I have formatted the computer 4 times now and still i have the same problems. I have all the latest drivers. One of the times i formatted it i installed only the drivers and let it idle for a couple of days. I come to use it see if it still did it and it did.
The error messages I get are below :-
1. If i try to load programs that are not already loaded i get the following errors :-
- The paging file is too small for this operation to complete
- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000012). Click ok to terminate the aplication)l
- Not enough quota is available to process this command.
- Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.
2. On this recent format, This problem hasnt shown itself, but on previous attempts I would also get a RPC fail problem and it would give me 1min then the computer shuts down. It would be WinLogo.exe that would call the shutdown
Once I reboot its fine. It seems to do it after the computer has idled for a few hours.
I have run Memtest86 for a couple of hours and no problems were detected. I have done a full sector scan off the HDD, no errors. I am currently running a Burn In test on SiSoft Sandra to see what that throws up.
My Paging file is set to 2500MB - so I cannot see it being a Virtual Memory problem?
I am at the end of my teather. I am using ISO's of Windows XP with all the latest patches etc (with my legit CD Key of course). I have tried several different versions of this - including my bogstandard XP CD with all the updates slip streamed.
edit : I have googled all the error messages - a couple of them point to trojan viruses, but I don't see how this can be since Its a fresh format each time it happens - and I am sure I have run AVG full scan and it picked nothing up.
Does anyone have ANY idea of what could be causing this?
Thanks.
I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop (1.7Pentium M, 1gig memory, 80gig WD HDD, Geforce 6800 256mb GFX). I have never had a problem with it until 3-4 months ago.
About 8 months ago I got my first Mac at home and now I use that all the time, except when I want to play the odd game which I use my Dell for. Since getting my Macbook Pro, I have always left my Dell on, sitting idling so that when I wanted to play a game i just opened the lid and there it was ready to go. Randomly I started getting problems with it - that, after it had been idling - when i came to use it, it would bascially mean me having to restart. I have formatted the computer 4 times now and still i have the same problems. I have all the latest drivers. One of the times i formatted it i installed only the drivers and let it idle for a couple of days. I come to use it see if it still did it and it did.
The error messages I get are below :-
1. If i try to load programs that are not already loaded i get the following errors :-
- The paging file is too small for this operation to complete
- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc000012). Click ok to terminate the aplication)l
- Not enough quota is available to process this command.
- Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.
2. On this recent format, This problem hasnt shown itself, but on previous attempts I would also get a RPC fail problem and it would give me 1min then the computer shuts down. It would be WinLogo.exe that would call the shutdown
Once I reboot its fine. It seems to do it after the computer has idled for a few hours.
I have run Memtest86 for a couple of hours and no problems were detected. I have done a full sector scan off the HDD, no errors. I am currently running a Burn In test on SiSoft Sandra to see what that throws up.
My Paging file is set to 2500MB - so I cannot see it being a Virtual Memory problem?
I am at the end of my teather. I am using ISO's of Windows XP with all the latest patches etc (with my legit CD Key of course). I have tried several different versions of this - including my bogstandard XP CD with all the updates slip streamed.
edit : I have googled all the error messages - a couple of them point to trojan viruses, but I don't see how this can be since Its a fresh format each time it happens - and I am sure I have run AVG full scan and it picked nothing up.
Does anyone have ANY idea of what could be causing this?
Thanks.
