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I read on the ATI spec page for the Xpress 1250 graphics card that it has "Unified Memory Architecture, with 16 to 512 MB of the main memory configurable as display memory." Does anyone know where I can change these configuration settings?

Hi, I recently purchased a new network card and have had some trouble installing it on my system. It's a D-Link DGE-350T Gigabit PCI adapter. Every time I try to substitute my current network card with the new one, this results in a hardware lockup making the system unable to boot Windows. It leaves some nonsensical message regarding a media failure. These symptoms are experienced regardless of which PCI slot I put my card into. I actually have two computers and I bought two of the same network card. The same problem persisted when I tried all sorts of combinations of cards and computers. If anyone can shed some light on the issue, that would be appreciated. Also let me know if you need more details about the problem.

Hmm.. never thought about dust being an issue for the drive. That might be worth looking into, even if its not what caused this particular problem.

Just as an update, in case people experience a similar problem. The problem is caused by corrupted sectors on the drive. I ran chkdsk /R in the command prompt and the problem was resolved.

Thanks a lot Zxian! Your suggestion worked. I had actually tried running chkdsk in the past, but with the /F flag instead or /R. The problem is now fixed. I guess this leaves me with the question of: what causes this type of drive corruption, so that I may avoid it in the future? Once again, thanks a lot for your help!

I have about 6GB of free memory on my hard drive and my paging file size is set to 2046 MB. So, in theory, I have enough memory, though I suppose it's possible that it is fragmented on the drive, screwing up the paging somehow. So should I disable the paging file completely (set it to 0 MB) or just reduce the size? I read a little about paging and it seems that a problem could arise if the paging file is too small, because it could lead to thrashing. Or did I misinterpret that?

Hi, My computer started crashing recently in various, seemingly unrelated conditions. To preface, my setup is: HP Pavillion dv5250 notebook Windows XP Professional SP2 120GB, 5400RPM Harddrive (SATA, I believe) Symptoms of the crash are the following: System becomes slow (at first) and then unresponsive. The light that symbolizes a harddisk access operation keeps lighting up for a few seconds (2-3 sec each time) and then going off for about 1 second before lighting up again. It continues with this pattern until I reboot the computer by holding the power button. After I restart it and check the Event Viewer, I see multiple entries of a warning under the System heading, several seconds apart, leading up to the time of the reboot. The events always list "disk" as the Source and contain the following: Event ID: 51 Description: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation." (As every event logged, it also provides the raw data dump (in bytes and words). Please let me know if this is important and I will post it. Though, from what little I could find regarding Event 51 warnings, the data is fairly typical and doesn't provide too much information beyond the description). The crash is encountered in various conditions: I first encountered the problem when connecting a new mp3 player I'd purchased through a USB port. I find it odd that the system starts paging the hard drive repeatedly, when I am connecting an external memory device... Then the problem occurred in other circumstances: - when trying to view the properties of the hard disk through the Device Manager - at the end of a game installation - when trying to access the properties of a wireless network card through Device Manager To me, the above conditions seem entirely unrelated. The only possible explanation I can come up with is that there is a problem in communication between the hard drive and external devices through the motherboard or something. I really don't know. If anyone has any insight to offer regarding this problem I would be very grateful, as this has been bugging me for a while now. Also, if there is any other information I can post to shed light on the issue, please let me know.

Hi, My computer started crashing recently in various, seemingly unrelated conditions. To preface, my setup is: HP Pavillion dv5250 notebook Windows XP Professional SP2 120GB, 5400RPM Harddrive (SATA, I believe) Symptoms of the crash are the following: System becomes slow (at first) and then unresponsive. The light that symbolizes a harddisk access operation keeps lighting up for a few seconds (2-3 sec each time) and then going off for about 1 second before lighting up again. It continues with this pattern until I reboot the computer by holding the power button. After I restart it and check the Event Viewer, I see multiple entries of a warning under the System heading, several seconds apart, leading up to the time of the reboot. The events always list "disk" as the Source and contain the following: Event ID: 51 Description: "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation." (As every event logged, it also provides the raw data dump (in bytes and words). Please let me know if this is important and I will post it. Though, from what little I could find regarding Event 51 warnings, the data is fairly typical and doesn't provide too much information beyond the description). The crash is encountered in various conditions: I first encountered the problem when connecting a new mp3 player I'd purchased through a USB port. I find it odd that the system starts paging the hard drive repeatedly, when I am connecting an external memory device... Then the problem occurred in other circumstances: - when trying to view the properties of the hard disk through the Device Manager - at the end of a game installation - when trying to access the properties of a wireless network card through Device Manager To me, the above conditions seem entirely unrelated. The only possible explanation I can come up with is that there is a problem in communication between the hard drive and external devices through the motherboard or something. I really don't know. If anyone has any insight to offer regarding this problem I would be very grateful, as this has been bugging me for a while now. Also, if there is any other information I can post to shed light on the issue, please let me know.