View Single Post
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 29-06-2004, 08:35 PM
computerfrog computerfrog is offline
Newbie
D-A-L Newbie
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 3
computerfrog Is a beginner here at D-A-L
Re: Please Help! Major problem with either XP or Hard Drive or Virus

No, i cannot boot into safe mode anymore. It gets hung up when it's trying to get into safe mode now.

I have 512 MB RAM. I also have System Mechanic Professional 4.0 on my computer. For laughs, I used it to see what my real-time resources were while running about 10 apps at the same time, and I never dropped below 60% of available RAM, unless one of those apps was a cd burning program in the process of burning a CD and using other apps that were involved with something that takes memory. It typically runs about 85-90% while working on two or three things at the same time. The computer worked fine on 512 MB RAM before, and without any major changes, I can't see why it would suddenly be too little RAM. Turbo Pascal doesn't take that much memory, and the machines at school that are loaded with Turbo Pascal only have 256 MB RAM, and they do fine too--just a little slower.