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i have sis 630 graphics controller, 300MB of Ram on mother board (128MB installed), yet i recieve the message "out of virtual memory" Is there a way to resolve this? ...
  1. 11-01-2004 #1
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    Out of Virtual Memory!?

    i have sis 630 graphics controller, 300MB of Ram on mother board (128MB installed), yet i recieve the message "out of virtual memory" Is there a way to resolve this? Do i need to go to the system bios and install more?
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    virtual memory is hard drive space used for extra memory when needed (swap space)
    did you only set up a very small swap partition ?
    you say you have 300mb but only 128 installed ? don't understand
    either increase your swap size or don't have several apps running at once
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    my bad, i thought it was ram hehehehe yeah i have 500 megs of swap space on my HDD (i wasnt thinking clearly at the time i wrote this!)
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