Brett Hurman
December 5th 03, 01:51 AM
On 17 Mar 2003 19:06:39 -0800, (Angus) wrote:
> As far as circumstances go, they are the same as the resource
>saturations from 98, except for the way that the programs crash. For
>those of you who aren't as familiar, it would be the system resource
>hogs like Netscape, IE, Paint Shop Pro, and especially Forte Agent
>that would trigger the problem. As I mentioned, the crash would happen
>when I've got a lot of these open, wherein a new app couldn't be
>started, and a running app had trouble doing new things, like opening
>documents. The problem was solved temporarily by closing some windows.
> Something else just happened to me. I tried clicking the control
>panel in the start menu, and it wouldn't take my click. The menu
>didn't even disappear when I clicked. Although, now that I think about
>it, I guess that's just the same phenomenon as programs not starting.
>It just never did that in 98.
I'm having exactly the same problems since purchasing an Asus D1T
"Desknote" notebook and installing XP Home from scratch.
I keep hearing people say that XP cannot suffer resource problems,
that when you get a message like "cannot complete request due to
insufficient resources" it must be due to some old 16-bit 3rd party
software. Well I'm not running any 3rd party 16-bit software or
drivers to the best of my knowledge. I've tried reinstalling display
and audio drivers (or switching to newer/older versions) as some of
the symptoms seem to show up in relation to graphics and sound before
anything else.
I've done a fresh install of XP Home to no avail. I'm back to where I
was a week ago, having to shut down all but the bare minimum of apps
in order to view web pages without text disappearing or overprinting,
to open any apps that use MMC without a "Failed to create empty
document" error, to run more multimedia intensive apps without hearing
that we're unable to switch to another display mode or that audio
hardware is not present or not responding...the list goes on. There's
nothing specific, no one thing you can put your finger on and say "if
I fix this I'm sure the other stuff will fall into line".
As you say Angus, this feels suspiciously like the old system resource
issues we all knew and hated so well. I'm tearing my hair out now as I
can't find any answers on the MS newsgroups that seem to apply.
I bought the notebook and upgraded to XP in order to avoid these sort
of issues I had in Win98 (and Win2k to a certain extent). I'm
extremely disappointed and am seriously considering going back to
Win2k as Asus only offers 2k and XP drivers for the hardware in my
notebook. If I could I'd go back to 98, at least I knew what my
problem was then.
Cheers
Brett Hurman
> As far as circumstances go, they are the same as the resource
>saturations from 98, except for the way that the programs crash. For
>those of you who aren't as familiar, it would be the system resource
>hogs like Netscape, IE, Paint Shop Pro, and especially Forte Agent
>that would trigger the problem. As I mentioned, the crash would happen
>when I've got a lot of these open, wherein a new app couldn't be
>started, and a running app had trouble doing new things, like opening
>documents. The problem was solved temporarily by closing some windows.
> Something else just happened to me. I tried clicking the control
>panel in the start menu, and it wouldn't take my click. The menu
>didn't even disappear when I clicked. Although, now that I think about
>it, I guess that's just the same phenomenon as programs not starting.
>It just never did that in 98.
I'm having exactly the same problems since purchasing an Asus D1T
"Desknote" notebook and installing XP Home from scratch.
I keep hearing people say that XP cannot suffer resource problems,
that when you get a message like "cannot complete request due to
insufficient resources" it must be due to some old 16-bit 3rd party
software. Well I'm not running any 3rd party 16-bit software or
drivers to the best of my knowledge. I've tried reinstalling display
and audio drivers (or switching to newer/older versions) as some of
the symptoms seem to show up in relation to graphics and sound before
anything else.
I've done a fresh install of XP Home to no avail. I'm back to where I
was a week ago, having to shut down all but the bare minimum of apps
in order to view web pages without text disappearing or overprinting,
to open any apps that use MMC without a "Failed to create empty
document" error, to run more multimedia intensive apps without hearing
that we're unable to switch to another display mode or that audio
hardware is not present or not responding...the list goes on. There's
nothing specific, no one thing you can put your finger on and say "if
I fix this I'm sure the other stuff will fall into line".
As you say Angus, this feels suspiciously like the old system resource
issues we all knew and hated so well. I'm tearing my hair out now as I
can't find any answers on the MS newsgroups that seem to apply.
I bought the notebook and upgraded to XP in order to avoid these sort
of issues I had in Win98 (and Win2k to a certain extent). I'm
extremely disappointed and am seriously considering going back to
Win2k as Asus only offers 2k and XP drivers for the hardware in my
notebook. If I could I'd go back to 98, at least I knew what my
problem was then.
Cheers
Brett Hurman