Hi,

Well, I know that 128Mb is within the specifications for Win2k, but I prefer to rely on my own personal experience.

I would not start with less than 256Mb and would prefer 384 or 512Mb.

As a start, you need to go to your system settings and change the "let windows select" option to give a PAGE FILE (swap files are win9x) of 512MB user defined. I am talking about "virtual memory" here.

The way BillyWindows works is it gives about 2x your RAM to the page file (and the swap file in 9x), so you will have 128 + 256 (page file) which gives you 384Mb

OH!............I must ask, is that 128Mb a single strip, or 2x64Mb?

Anyway, what I suspect is happening is that the memory is getting used up, and there is not enough virtual memory allocated on the HDD for it. If you think about it, a machine with little physical RAM needs more virtual memory?...............I have a machine across the room with Win2000 on it..........BillyWindows gives it 2Gb of page file, yet it only gets to 190Mb of its 1024Mb of RAM when I start it................it then gets to around 320~340Mb when I start using it.

So, we now come to your problem with the display..............I am willing to bet a lakh of rupees that you have "integrated" (on motherboard) video ...............that means that you are sharing the RAM with the video..........like you have 128Mb RAM and a 64Mb video, that means that the system will only have 64Mb for the system to use.

SOLUTION:

1. Manually increase the page file size.
2. Get some more RAM............watch out! if you have RAMBUS RIMMS you will need to install matched pairs

Please let us know how you get on