[corey?]

I just got another gig of ram installed onto my computer. All is running well until i
seem to run a load on my computer, then my screen freezes and i get looping sounds coming from my computer.

I think i may need a new power supply since im running a 300 watt with a ati x800 xl card, 3 case fans, 3 ghz intel p4 cpu, 2 cd roms, sata 200 gig hd and 1.5
gigs ddr pc3200 ram. I may also be running out of virtual ram because i have only 2 gigs of space left on my drive and i have the v ram set to 5 gigs and i cant disable it (at least at what i tryed)

please help me!
my email is bmxicanadrian@gmail.com

thanks

[trigger_sad]

I've had the same problem with my computer (freezes and sound loops) under load, it was all caused by the power supply here, replaced it with a more stable one and it was all good. I noticed mine was bad because all the rails at idle were horrible off. Try checking yours.

[rseven]

to the Forum!
Yes, it could be a voltage issue. Certainly a 300 watt PSU is not nearly enough for the job. (Hopefully it's at least a good make PSU)
To reset the virtual memory on XP go to:
Control panel/system/advanced tab/settings/advanced tab/change
Then select the hard drive that the virtual memory is on then check "system managed size" or if you want to set it yourself check "custom" then set, OK and then apply. You will be prompted that the system has to reboot for the new settings to take effect.
Good luck.

[r0frog]

Why 5gb Virtual memory? :blink:
That's just... excessive.

And I agree, pop a new PSU in there and she'll be fine.

[corey?]

thanks guys for your help! the problem was the hard drive space and i deleated some junk because i knew how to change the v ram and my computer wouldint even apply the settings for somereason. . well anyway i got it working, seems that the vram was taking up more space than the hd had.

[rseven]

I think you could still use a new PSU. That thing could go and take some other hardware with it.

[4GHZ_or_bust]

Yeah why 5GB? Most of the time XP only doubles the installed RAM by making virtual memory the same size. Naturally I set mine to a fixed size because when I do RAM intensive task, I keep getting message pop up stating there's not enough RAM and XP would be resizing the virtual memory that can often cause my PC to slow to a crawl for a couple minutes. By fixing it at a decent size I never get bothered by error message or slowdowns. This only happens when I do really big Photoshop job and my 1.5GB insta;;ed RAM runs out.