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Print/memory problem

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Bobalos

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Hey there folks, a buddy suggested that I give you guys (& gals) a ring to see if you could not help me figure out what is up with my machine.

I have a, 500 Mhz P2, Asus MB, 128M Ram, 14GB Hard drive, Win 98 - 2 edition. machine.

Printer, HP PSC 500 (Older Printer, Copier, Scanner in one).

nothing really fancy just a simple machine. my problem is that if I print a small word document or something to the printer, it works just ducky. when I try to print a large picture to the printer it gives me an error message "not enough memory" or "insufficient memory" (something like that). If I shrink the picture down to teeny X small, it works OK (no error), but with larger documents it does not work.

I would not think that 128M of ram would be too small to print a 1024X768 picture, but ...................

I thought maybe it was a Spooling thing so I played with those & that did not help any, so........ I dont know what to do. any thoughts?

thanks folks
Bob

 
You might be having an issue where you have too many background processes running. Doing a CTRL + ALT + Delete should show you a list of everything that is running. If you see a lot of programs, that's where your 128 MB of RAM is going.

Also, if you are confident, you might want to take a look at msconfig and see if you can kill these processes from even loading on the machine.

That's almost definitely the source of your problem - especially if it's been working in the past and now it does not. Sounds like you have one too many programs running in the background now.
 
thanks a bunch. is there a way that I can test this or prove this? should I do the Ctrl, ALT DEL & shut some things down & see if that does not help? I dont know what all is running (I will check tonight) & see what is running compared to this machine I have here @ work (similar machines).

I dont have much on this machine, but the kids have a number of game stuff on it. these are little kids not big kids with shoot-em up grafix games (dont know if that really matters or not).

is there a tool that I can use to see what is running or how much memory I have available?

I am more of a user than fixer when it comes to computers, so my knowledge base here is pretty small.

thanks again.
Bob
 
Most efficient way -

Click on Start
Click on Run
In the textbox, type in msconfig
Click on the Startup Tab

That will show you everything that is getting called when the machine boots up. You'll probably see a lot of garbage in there.
 
As I recall, PII's only went up to 450mz. Your 128mb ram may not be enough for what you want to do. You could try manually increasing the size of your swap file and try it then. You have to keep in mind that Windows is loaded into ram as well as a copy of the picture (which could be as big as 50mb itself with what you are doing), the printer driver, and the output data for the printer. That is an awful lot for 128mb ram. I would think dropping another stick of ram in it would fix the problem.
 
Originally posted by: hagrin
Most efficient way -

Click on Start
Click on Run
In the textbox, type in msconfig
Click on the Startup Tab

That will show you everything that is getting called when the machine boots up. You'll probably see a lot of garbage in there.
Click to expand...

this may be a dumb question, but Im not the sharpest pencil in the cup when it comes to confusers so.........

how do you know whats "garbage"? should i just turn stuff off & reboot & see if the computer works, & if not turn it back on again? or maybe make a list of the stuff that looks like garbage & post it here for some Pro advise?

thanks again Gents.
Bob

 
Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
As I recall, PII's only went up to 450mz. Your 128mb ram may not be enough for what you want to do. You could try manually increasing the size of your swap file and try it then. You have to keep in mind that Windows is loaded into ram as well as a copy of the picture (which could be as big as 50mb itself with what you are doing), the printer driver, and the output data for the printer. That is an awful lot for 128mb ram. I would think dropping another stick of ram in it would fix the problem.
Click to expand...

How do I get to the swap file to test this?

I was pretty sure that its a 500 Mhz, no matter I suppose, what 50 Mhz between friends? LOL.

I am going to see about putting more ram into it.

BW
 
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