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- From: bruce@bruces.frontiertech.com
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- Subject: Bad hard drive = no memory?
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 15:21:36 GMT
- Organization: Frontier Technologies Corporation
- Lines: 43
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- Hi netters,
-
- I hope someone can confirm or disprove my theory on this so
- I know what to do with my disk drive.
- I have a Gateway 386. It used to have 4 MB RAM and a
- 65 RLL hard drive. I recently upgraded it to 8 MB RAM and
- a 245 MB Seagate ST3283A hard drive. The first Seagate had
- to go back due to bad bearings, so I am now working with a
- replacement (same model number).
-
- The problem is this: Windows will intermittently "decide" that it
- is out of memory. Usually the load is only Progrman and Write, and
- maybe a shareware spell checker. I am certainly NOT taxing the
- memory capacity. The symptoms range from Write reporting
- "Not enough memory to repaginate or print" to Windows repeatedly
- reporting "Extremely low on memroy. Close some applications."
- When the latter happens, I have to reboot the machine because
- Windows won't let me shut down Program Manager (since there
- apparently isn't enough memroy to free memory).
-
- These problems seem to occur more frequently when I turn on
- Windows 32-bit access for the swap file, adding to my suspicion that
- the drive is at fault.
-
- One other possible suspect is Borland C++ 3.1, which I installed
- just after the new hard drive. Could some of its virtual drivers be
- messing with memory?
-
- I do know the drive and/or controller are not 100% healthy, because
- I cannot reboot the machine with the hardware reset switch without
- getting a HDD Controller Failure on the Power On Self Test.
-
- So, has anyone had similar experiences? Can anyone verify for sure
- that this is due to the drive. I don't want to keep exchanging the
- drive if the problem lies elsewhere.
-
- Thanks very much in advance for any light you can shed on this
- for me.
-
- Bruce Backman
- Software Engineer
- Bruce@frontiertech.com
-
-