A case of bad RAM?

Hey everyone! I have an A8Jm model which has 1 GB of RAM.

Lately after playing games (ie Oblivion) i am recieving warnings in my system try that virtual memory is low. I close my programs and what not, restart explorer.exe and everything seems to run fine again. but after awhile of winamp and Opera usage i get the same memos. I also get the warnings when I leave the laptop on overnight while downloading/uploading.

Are there ways to test my RAM to see if they are good or not?

Also, after running Norton Internet Security for awhile I get meeseges stating Microsoft Visual Runtime C++ had to close ccApp.exe (norton process). Does it soud familiar to anyone?

 

It does seem that you have some service that's taking up a lot of memory... what do you see when you look at your Task manager? See any program that's taking up a lot of memory? How big is your virtual memory pool set to? It could be that Windows caching files that are played with Winamp, etc. is just filling your main memory, and you have too little virtual memory. If you have a small virtual memory file, windows will complain quite often. Set it to a minimum of 512MB with your amount of RAM, and you should see those messages go away.

 

If you have the spare space, do about 2.5-3x what you have in RAM for the most extra bang for the byte. I have a 6GB virtual file, but it is almost never used with my 2GB RAM.

 

Have a look at this link: Click Here.

Also if you want you can remove Nortan...it is a resource hog, many use AVG Free or Avast, or some others to deal with their anti virus.

You can get a memtest program but if you had ram problems, your system wouldn't boot.

 

Try adding more SDRAM to get more virtual memory. That's what I did on my laptop recently and it works a lot better.

 

The problem definitely isn't your RAM, but Windows' usage of the available space. I would concur with checking out the TSR programs and processes you've got running - the culprit is hiding somewhere in there.

 

It's more likely that he has his virtual memory set to 0, some really small number (probably < 512MB), or some really insanely huge number (probably > 2048MB).

The thing is, you should NEVER set your virtual memory to 0MB. I have run into so many "experts" who say otherwise, but the fact of the matter is, if the memory space is not there when a program needs it, your program will fail and give you that warning message.

A good measure is to set your page file size equal to the amount of RAM you have in the system.

 

hey again,

thanks a lot for all the responses so far. i really appreaciate it.

I checked my virtual memory (control panel/system/performance) and it says my "Total paging file size for all drives: 1536 MB". for my C drive (i have 2 partitions) my paging file sizes are 1536-3072). But below it is says Recommended 1534MB, Allocated 1536MB."

Recently I reformated my laptop because it kept on crashing after Oblivion (damn that sweet sweet game) and I never had this problem before my Norton expired (then I used Symantec AV + Windows Firewall).

Now upon checking my Task Manager, I notice my highest mem usage process is ccApp.exe. From a Google search its a Norton auto protect/email scanner. its using 446600K compared to the 2nd highest Opera at 55164K.

So i'm gonna try to solve that monster and read that link from MilestonePC.com

 

Welllll that link is pretty much what you people said

 

I noticed my CPU is running at 80% now and I am only browsing this site. Damn Norton! I guessing I have no choice but to uninstall.

The one thing that worries me is the illusion of protection i suppose. Liveupdate has updates almost daily and sometimes it has popups saing it prevented a recent attack. When I had Symantec Anti Virus 9.0.1 and Windows Firewall i never saw any prevention notices and the Liveupdate had updates weekly....

 

My suggestion would be to replace Norton with something like avast!, as milestonePC said.