Message saying "No Memory"

[spasell]

Something unusual has started happening over the last 2 days to my system. I have a x61T with 1GB memory installed, and for whatever reason, I get this message saying "no memory" when I open a program like Uniblue System Utilities (part of the Speed up my PC program) that came highly recommended from people here and elsewhere. There is a utility within that program that looks at ways to optimize my RAM, and when it shows the running graph of memory utilization, it's always at about 60-75% used.

Now, the only thing I have running at the same time is IE and Microsoft Outlook. I am going to go out on a limb and say that those 2 programs are not memory intensive, so there must be something else running in the background that is causing this problem.

At one point, the IE program I was in started flashing the window, making a bunch of the clicking noises as if I was trying to click on a link, and I had to actually just shut my system down by turning off the power, something I hate to do.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this, and if so, do you know what was causing this and the fix? I am going to order another 2GB of memory at Newegg as recommended, and hopefully that will help, but it happened all of the sudden, not progressively.

The only other recent program that I loaded onto my system that was of any size was my Blackberry OS 4.3 desktop, but that would seem a little bit of a stretch that it would cause this, particularly because it's not even running unless I open it.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

[mrgetalife]

"memory manager" programs after the windows 3.11 / dos days are pretty much useless.

If you're using Vista. I'd guess the program is just being stupid and wasn't updated correctly. As vista counts memory usage differently than previous versions. Rather than telling you what physical ram its using. It also counts the virtual memory being used.

[iamdmc]

Could be that the program you are using doesn't like Vista (I'm having the same problem with DAEMON tools virtual DVD drive)

GL, but I don't think it's a major problem with your computer. Just make sure that BIOS and Windows can see the RAM and you're set.

P.S. I would definitely recommend upgrading the RAM anyway - it'll just fly with 3GB.

[spasell]

I forgot to mention I am running XP not Vista

[Techgurl]

I forgot to mention I am running XP not Vista

I have not had a problem running a gig of ram in XP

use taskmanager and see what program is using up all your memory.