Insufficient Physical memory?

[mjwkr]

Well,

I have a Dell Latitude C600 Laptop that is about 6 years old. I am trying to make it "workable" for the time being until I can buy a new one. I just went out and bought 256mb of additional Ram, but I am still getting an error occasionally. When viewing websites, or doing multiple tasks my computer will shut down itself. It goes to a blue screen that says something along the lines of insufficient physical memory. I thought it meant that the 128mb of ram standard was insufficient anymore (thus the fact I purchased some more). I don't want to dump much more money if I don't have to. I have run every virus scan imaginable (including Hijack this logs), and have removed many programs and files.

Any ideas on things to check on would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[renegade600]

what operating system?

[mjwkr]

Windows NT 2000 Pro.

[mjwkr]

The actual error message reads:

Stop: 0X0000007F

unexpected_kernel_mode_trap

Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete. Contact your system administrator or technical support.


I looked on Microsofts website and there is a lot of info on this, but most lean towards bad hardware (possibly mother board).

Any help?

[Calpitor]

Microsoft released a hotfix to fix this problem on computers that run Windows 2000.
For details, read the Microsoft Knowledge Base document You receive a "0x0000007F" stop error on a Windows 2000-based computer (838804).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838804/

[mjwkr]

Well, I installed the hotfix but the problem still persists. Any more ideas

[binarybloke]

Sounds like your RAM. RAM can be really strange if its installed with other types of RAM, eg, different manufacturer or access speeds, even ESD damage. Check the obvious, installed correctly etc. But it sounds like a typical RAM fault.

[Bleu_Fantasy]

can someone please tell me why won't my computer format when i try to get it to? it goes as far as 76% only to end up stopping telling me there is insufficient memory. i tried just about everything and i'm getting fed up. i have 2 harddrives (F and C) and i finished formatting my F drive completely but suddenly i'm not able to format C. why on earth won't it format and how do i get it to format? please any help will be appreciated.

[l337_GuY]

If C: is where your OS is, You can't format it without booting the XP OS cd, Or other means. It can't format itself while it's accessing itself. Formatting basically marks of every sector of the HDD as free space again, so formatting C: would need to "wipe" it clean of every file, which it can't if you are using it.