Submitted by anonymous on Tue, 02/10/2004 - 08:23

Each time I boot my computer I get an error message that the paging file is not set or too small.

This is new because when I setup the box I followed the WinXP tweak guide and set it. I think it was 512 min and max.

Now when I try to reset it, it will allow me to but when the computer reboots I get the same message and the paging file was not changed.

The computer's performance does not seem to be effected.

Computer PIV 2.0 ASUS P4B800E(?)
Win XP - all updates
3- 40 gig HDs (1 OS, 1 sound and 1 backup)
OS and Sound drive are more than 60% empty.

Thank
Mark

Comments

I was bouncing a song to disk today, and a little more that half way through I got an error message that said "bounce handler unable to keep up" (this is in protools 6.1). I go to the support section of digidesign and found 7 hits concerning the "bounce handler." One of the suggestions that I followed was to disable page filing. I tired this and it did not fix my problem. I played with different fixes for about 45 minutes. Finally, I noticed I was sending audio to a aux track that was disabled. I muted that send and tried to bounce again, and it was a successful bounce. My point is that the system now has page filing turned off. I have a little more that a gig of ram, and the system seems to actually run faster with no page file. I haven't checked to see if it is a bad idea disable PF, but for now I'll leave it the way it is.
Caine

Well thanks for all the great info on paging files. I couldn't find any trouble-shooting info though.

Tried the idea to move the paging file to a separate drive but I still get the same problem.
It allows you to set wat ever I want, save, it askes to reboot but the same error message appears.

No indication why, it just won't create a paging file. Ah Microsoft, so helpful.

Mark

Have you considered just turning the Pagefile to "OFF"?

I have found that this is required sometimes prior to altering the pagefile size.

Under Virtual Memory put a check in No Paging File for each drive listed, then wait a minute or so and reboot.

Afterwords, make it a System Manged pagefile on Drive C: only, then wait a minute and reboot.

If these ideas do not work, schedule a disk error check and select to automatically fix errors for each disk, then reboot and try again. Sometimes if there is a disk error, the pagefile will not be altered.