Win 32

[Samiam]

System is Gigabyte GA-7VAXT m/b, Athlon XP 1.7 Gb CPU (Boxed), 512Mb DDR 400 (PC3200) RAM, ATI 9000 128Mb video, onboard (Realtek) audio, onboard LAN, Motorola SB4200 Cable Modem (RoadRunner) through a LinkSys BEFSR 41 Router (for internet access). RAID/FIREWIRE disabled in Bios., Win ME.

Just installed this m/b onto an existing system.; smooth install for the most part, although WinME installed most of the software for it rather than letting me use the installation cd.

At boot, when I get a desktop, I get a dialogue box with the message: "Win 32 There is not enough memory to run this program. Quit one or more programs, and then try again".

Performance shows 80% resources at this time, NSW tells me I'm using only 70MB of my RAM, and everything works great. No "spyware" or "adware" active when I get the msg.

Ideas and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Samiam]

Forgot to mention I have no conflicts in Device Manager.

[AnnMarie]

Hi Samiam - although you dont have more than 512 MB's of RAM, you could try the workarounds here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q253912) and see if they help.

[Samiam]

That sounds like my problem all right, and I do have a 128Mb video card. Also, I just tried opening a dos prompt with this page and my email program running and got the aforementioned message. It's odd that it never happened with my old 950Mhz machine and the same video card. I had 512Mb SDRAM then with the same video card....

And I thought DDR RAM was supposed to be better...

Thanks AnnMarie

[AnnMarie]

I didnt look at your Video Card information Samian and I should have. Still, I think we have found the problem and you are very welcome. :D

[Samiam]

This board went together extremely easy, and until I installed NSW 2003 was very satisfactory. Now, however, after only about 15 minutes use, I have to reboot due to "low memory". I have difficulty in believing this is normal for a board with such good reviews. I built the system for my son, but until/if I can't resolve this memory problem it appears he may never see it. Is this why the board supports up to 3Gb RAM? (And who could afford that much at $100 a pop for 512Mb?)
The installation cd contains a couple of Gigabyte utilities called Gigabyte Management Tool and Gigabyte Windows Utility Manager but once you install them they can't be removed (according to a warning prior to their installation). I'm wondering if installing them would help. Any ideas?

I'm going to check with Gigabyte when they open for business today--I'll post the result back here.

Again, thanks.

[AnnMarie]

I am not familiar with the Gigabyte utilities Samian so I'm sorry but I cant help with your question. I would like to hear what Gigabyte say though.

[Samiam]

At this time, I haven't been able to contact Gigabyte, however.....

I've been shuffling hardware between two (actually three) towers in order to assemble what (I thought) was the best combination of hardware in one machine, and naturally put the 128Mb ATI 9000 card in the machine I plan to use most of the time. It was removed from a 950Mhz Athlon machine (an established machine, performing perfectly with one exception--see my previous posts relating to "hangs" at boot unless I disabled my ethernet adapter), which I plan to give to my son. I decided to switch video cards and put an NVidia 64Mb card (from the third machine) on the Gigabyte m/b this morning, and was I surprised!!! My resources immediately jumped from 78 to 87%!!!

More in the next post which will follow as soon as I can get another cup of coffee, since this post is running rather large. I'd like to post exactly what I've done in case someone else happens to experience similar problems.

[Samiam]

Don't ask me why, but throughout my problems with the 950 machine the nagging thought was in the back of my mind that the video card was somehow related to my "hangs at boot" problem, and this seems to justify it.

btw, I disabled the functions Microsoft suggests (as a "workaround") that you pointed me to in your first reply to this thread. They helped, but didn't entirely resolve the problem.


When I first booted the Gigabyte m/b I was amazed at it's speed (94% resources). Then I began installing software, starting with Norton SW 2003, and my problems began (I'm not "knocking" Norton--it's a great utility, but can cause problems). The problems became even worse when I installed the NIS that came bundled with the Gigabyte installation cd, to the point where my resources dropped to 61% after only about 5 minutes, I'd begin getting the memory messages, and the system would sometimes force me to use the Reset switch.

After switching the video cards, although with Eudora running in the background at this instant, and the present page loaded, I can now open a Dos Prompt without getting the insufficient memory dialogue box. My resources are presently at 69%, but the machine still has plenty of "zip".

I'll continue to update this post, as well as inform you if the other machine reacts unfavorably with the ATI card, but I believe the video card is going to solve the problem with the Gigabyte board.

[AnnMarie]

Well who would have thought it! I hope your problems are over now Samian. Thank you for giving us full details of how you resolved the issue.