System resources low

[reddoc]

In My Computer under properties in the performance tab it lists the amount of free System resources. I have been told that above 80% is where your system should operate. My system is usually between 40 and 70%. I have 160MB of RAM of which 64MB is cacheable. It has an L2 external cache of 256KB. I cannot understand why my system resources is so low. I have been having problems with the system shutting down and after it powers back up it will say TOO MANY PARAMETERS before it runs scandisk. I never finds anything much wrong after running scandisk. I have defragmented the hard drive several times. If anyone has suggestions I sure would appreciate it.
Thanks, Michael

[Steve R Jones]

Windows 9.x System Resources
http://216.55.4.177/techfiles/win-resources.html

TOO MANY PARAMETERS = bad line in config.sys or autoexec.bat file. If you post the contents of these two files we can take a look.

[InsaneMorphius]

Michael, did you get the problem worked out??? Let us know, as there are other possibilities causing the low SYS Resources.
CNTL+ALT+DEL, look at how many threads are running, this is usually the prob with low system resources. In other words, you have a lot of stuff running in the background of windows. Let us know http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Morphius

[Toadman]

If you're using Win98, you can 'Start, Run, type in "msconfig",select start-up tab, and then select/deselect the programs you want to run upon booting to Win. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[quietinthecorner]

Toadman has hit it, take check mark out of box for things like windows critical update, ICQ, Yahoo Pager, MS Messenger, you can put these things as shortcuts to desktop.Pagers or messengers take from 7 to 12% of your resources each.I went from 70-73% to, at boot up 90-93%

[reddoc]

Hey, Alright!
Here are the Autoexec.bat and the config.sys file:
@C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\NAVDX.EXE /Startup
@ECHO OFF
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
LH DOSKEY
C:\IBMAV95\IBMAVSH /F00
SET PATH=C:\Program Files\SquareD;%PATH%
SET GRIP=C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\GRIP
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
END OF THE AUTO EXEC . BAT FILE

device=c:\windows\system\atitbdrv.sys
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM x=a000-cbff
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:IBMCD001
device=c:\windows\cwbinit.exe /A
END OF CONFIG SYS . FILE

My O/S is W95
By the way I did manage to remove some of the programs that automatically come on when I boot up I wnt to start/settings/taskbar and start menu/start menu programs.
I could not figur out how to stop the news alert from running automatically so I went to the windows explorer and found the Msnbc folder and in it was the news alert folder which I dragged to my desktop and then rebooted and what do you know IT DID NOT AUTOMATICALLY RUN. I can now boot up at about 76% system resources free, which I would still like to improve. I have run out of time. Thanks all. See you later.
Michael


[This message has been edited by reddoc (edited 02-29-2000).]

[reddoc]

Steve R Jones, That link does not work for me. Is ther a misprint in it maybe?
Michael reddoc

[Axel]

confirmed dead URL there -

160MB ram - interesting - your system running win95 can't address more than 128 - are you using several sticks from different manufacturers, or possibly with different NS ratings on them??

76% is still a bit low - if you would, please post what comes up in your task manager right after you start up. You've still got something with a memory leak running there......

Are you running any distributed processing clients like RC5 or SETI@HOME? - those are typical memory hogs.

Another question - are you using a "WIN" modem? - those eat processor resources when connected.

[reddoc]

At startup I have about 80 to 82% free now, but when I get on the net and have Inbox-Outlook Express on I am down to 63%. I have the Diamond Supra Sonic 11 Shotgun modem. My virtual memory is managed by Windows, but is the unused portion of my hard drive which is 1.45GB. I do not know what the task manager is or how to read info from it.
Michael
PS By the way I have e-mailed Gravis about the duplicate commands in the autoexec.bat file and have not received an answer yet.

[This message has been edited by reddoc (edited 03-02-2000).]

[Nathan]

Holy cow. What a mess in those files. OK. Let's try this. Others will help out if I miss something here. You can change these back if you wish by booting to a command prompt and use the edit command like the following if it doesn't work;

edit autoexec.bat

Try this setup;

@C:\PROGRA~1\NORTON~1\NAVDX.EXE /Startup
@ECHO OFF
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
REM LH DOSKEY
REM C:\IBMAV95\IBMAVSH /F00
REM SET PATH=C:\Program Files\SquareD;%PATH%
REM SET GRIP=C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\GRIP
REM SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\GRAVIS\CORESO~1

1. If you can live without Norton, I would uninstall it, yesterday.

2. See if the machine will work without the IBM stuff installed. I take it this is an IBM PC? If so, what model? And the processor speed is what?

3. What's the SquareD program for?

4. Is Gravis for the joy stick or mouse? I think you are sucking up some resources there too.


;device=c:\windows\system\atitbdrv.sys
;DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
;DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM x=a000-cbff
;DOS=HIGH,UMB
;DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:IBMCD001
;device=c:\windows\cwbinit.exe /A

Let us know what works and what doesn't.

Let us know what happens.

[This message has been edited by Nathan (edited 03-02-2000).]