Thread: Problem with my laptop

Hey um, I have a laptop that keeps getting the blue screen of death with an error message "Not enough physical memory"... does anyone know how to fix this?

Get more physical memory

Normally, when windows (XP anyway) is running low on memory, and is running out of swap, it warns you that it's about to expand the size of the swap file. So it might be that you're actually out of disk space. Not sure, though. It might be that your RAM is hosed, or frankly, a whole host of other issues. When does this happen? How often? What are you doing when it happens? (i.e. surfing the net (porn) or playing the latest graphics-intensive video game?) How old is your PC? How much RAM do you actually have? Did you maybe just recently "upgrade" to Vista, which requires more memory, and are now getting that error?

Just one problem, I don't know where to get more memory

Circuit City, Best Buy... all of these places have RAM sticks. I wouldn't get any unless you are sure that it's the RAM, check to make sure some of your RAM isn't locked, or if a stick isn't simply loose.

I forget where, but I believe that there is a way to make Windows swapping less aggressive, try doing that too. Aggressive swapping doesn't outperform lazy swapping anymore (or at least not by much.)

I'm curious to know how much RAM you have, my mother has XP running on 128MB of RAM and it still works.

It sounds like a hardware fault to me, Windows should have error handling routines for low RAM. BSOD is equivalent to a Kernel Panic right? It shouldn't do that.

EDIT: Oh you have a laptop. That might be more difficult to find additional RAM for, open it up and see what kind of RAM is in it before buying a stick.

Yeah, I've got vista running on 2 gigs of ram on my laptop, and its only as efficient as my desktop, XP OS, with 1 gig. Vista is a huge ram hog.

Yeah they recommend getting much more ram than 2 gigs for vista...

Anyway what laptop do you have? My dell latitude d600 got that blue screen of death all the god damn time, and the only way to fix it was to send it in and get a new laptop. I was still under warranty... are you? In which case you can call their support and they will start by replacing your harddrive...