Paging file size in Win2K

[durakote]

Everytime i start up my computer right as soon as it is ready to get into windows a virtual memory paging file size error comes up.

Things i have tried:
going into perfomance options and trying to change it to various numbers
Setting the min to 1 and the max to 3000

Questions:
What should the numbers be at?
Do i have to be logged into administrator?

 

[idgaf13]

Taken from Windows 2000 Administrators Pocket Consultant
page 25
Configuring Virtual Memory
1 double click the System Icon in the control panel;
then click Advanced Tab.
2 Choose Performance Options
click Change to display Virtual Memory dialog box
3 In the drive list box, select the volume you want to work with
4 Enter an intial and a Max size and then click Set to save the changes.
5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each volume you want to configure.
6 Click OK and if promptedto overwrite an exsisting PAGEFILE.SYS file click yes.
close the system utility and reboot.

suggested intial values 1.5xRAM for intial value and 3xRAM for Max value.
also by default windows only creates ONE pagefile to be used by all HDDs in the system ,it is sugested that you create A pagefile for EACH Physical HDD.

 

[jxbl1]

If what idgaf13 replied with does not help, go into safe mode (F8 at startup) and check the system event logs. There will most likely be Service Control Manager events logged. See what those are, and check them against MS technet (www.technet.com). Search by the specific Event ID that the Service Control Manager logs. You may find a very specific answer/reason to the popup.

If you have anything logged, post it here and I'll look it up.

Page file errors can also be attributed to HDD issues, so run a Scandisk on the partition that hold pagefile.sys.

idgaf13 reply was straight off the MS Exams, also! The only thing left out is...make the pagefile a static size which prevents the space that pagefile.sys takes up from becoming fragmented.