gordons-joint

I'm having huge memory problems in win2k. Up until Christmas I used an old Pentium Pro 200 which ran for around a month at a time without needing to be reset. It worked great! Now I run a dual PIII 1GHz with 256MB RDRAM on an 840 mobo and depending on what apps I open, it only stays up for about a day! I have tried re-installing 2k on a clean formatted partition and only installing the necessary apps, which amounts to premiere, photoshop, 3ds max, and office, with drivers for my alcatel adsl modem and pinnacle firewire card. I even left out the SBLive cause i thought it might be the creative drivers fault. On booting task manager shows about 70MB used, but after using the machine for a day the used memory routinely ends up around 250MB used with all apps closed!! but nothing in task manager appears to be using any huge amounts of memory!! With this amount of memory used premiere refuses to open and the adsl model falls over so I have to reset the machine. Anyone know what is going on here? is this a rouge driver's fault? has anyone seen this behaviour before? I'm at my wits end!! Thanks

Thanks everyone for the replies! I've been experimenting with what apps I open and it would seem that the machine itself is stable, running 24/7 with just SETI running all seems fine. Loading one app doesn't seem to affect much but if you load all of them at some point during a session the memory starts to go through the roof, and continues to swell from then on! I guess I'll just need to be careful how I run stuff and if I have to run loads of apps, just remember to reset afterwards!

hehe cool! thanks for actually replying! its really annoying when a 6 year old machine runs without a hitch and your new hardware causes no end of problems!

nope! how do you think this might actually be my problem or are you just being sarcastic?!

I got my ADSL line installed last week and now my dual PIII machine has to run with the second cpu disabled! Its an Alcatel modem and the drivers apparently have a problem with UHCI USB ports, it needs OHCI ports to work dual cpu under win2k! Not really related to your problem as such but I get the same error if I run dual CPU and connect so maybe there is some sort of USB issue with Windows XP and the modem. Since most motherboard USB ports are UHCI you may be running into the same sort of thing. Hope this helps some!