Re: Could I be fighting a "To much memory" problem?

go trying lowering to 2 or 3 GB as suggested by ytrewq

you can also look into configuring your GPU, main board with regard to
memory
or if you don't have any device driver problem with xp pro 74 and your
program works with within xp 64, you can try out xp pro 64 bit on another
partition.

"William" <> wrote in message
news: acquisition...
> I've been running my P5W DH Deluxe with 4 gig of ram for the last year and
I
> have been running into some strange problems that I think may well be a
> conflict with the excessive ram I have installed on my mobo running XP
> (32bit). Such as:
>
> 1) When I want to start my Hauppauge HVR-1800 tuner on my secondary
monitor
> I get a memory access error and the program errors out. It starts fine on
> the primary monitor. I can drag the open window over to the secondary
> monitor with no problem at all. But I must drag it back to the primary
when
> I exit the program or the next time I start the program it will error out
on
> the secondary monitor again.
>
> 2) I just upgraded my dual-monitor setup (Analogue VGA) with two Samsung
> T220's (Digital) and when I move the MagicTune Premium program from the
> primary monitor to the secondary monitor the program errors out with a
> memory access error.
>
> I have a feeling that the problem is the set-aside memory used for
> exchanging data between the cpu and gpu in upper memory is conflicting
with
> the installed excess ram. I also believe this problem is due to sloppy
> programming or resource calls to said memory that is causing the problem.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this? Am I crazy or sound on this idea?
>
> Help
>
> William
>
>
>

Somewhere on teh intarweb "William" typed:
> "ytrewq" <> wrote in message
> news: m...
>> So did the Hauppauge issue go away with 2GB memory?
>
>
> ytrewq:
>
> I'm too lazy to pull out two sticks of memory just to check the
> Hauppauge. This reminds me of an old joke my grandfather enjoyed
> telling......
> Their was this man standing in the Out House. He was throwing large
> coins down the toilet hole from his pocket. A man went up to him and
> asked why he was throwing good money into the toilet. He said " You
> don't think I am going down their just for a nickel do you?"
>
> Well, this joke is sort of like the memory problem. You don't think
> I am going to pull out two sticks of memory just for a tuner problem
> on a secondary monitor do you? I will need a few more problems
> before I do that.
> I was hoping that some of the people who posted having 4 gig of memory
> causes problems with 32 bit os's would know something about this. I
> have never seen anyone post exactly what those problems are. Still
> haven't, but this sounds like it might be one of them.

Whu post all that? You could have just said that you're too damn lazy to try
it and prefer to waste other people's time instead.
--
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