Low memory error when doing Windows updates..

[DarthVader1022]

Hello everyone,

 

I hope I am asking this in the correct thread,

 

Ok first off I am not sure why I am getting this error as it happens to me on 2 different computers.

 

What I have been trying to do is load 2 seperate brand new hard drive with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on 2 differnt PC's to have only as back up if the original hard drives would fail,so basically I doing this as backup drive so that all I would have to do is uplug the bad drive and plug the newly reloaded drive..

 

Well as I am loading Windows 7 which I have no issues with,it is when I am doing all these bloody updates to be exact it is when you get the ones that says you have around 190 updaates is where I getting a message that says Windows low memory.

 

I am sure I have plent of memory which on one system have at least 8gb of memory and the other PC has only 2gb of memory which is fine for that system and both I have 2 brand new Western Digital1tb hard drives.

 

So ask you all who may have ran into this issue with doing Windows updates..The only way I have seem to have solve this issue was to only download and install half of the updates vs downloading and installing all 190 or more updates all at once..

 

Can anyone tell me why am I just starting to get this error now when I never had this issue before when I loaded a new hard drive with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 several times until recently the last couple times I say 4 times I have gotten this?

 

Oh by the way it is not only my PC's I have encounter this as I have had the same issue when I did both my landlords PC's..again I getting this only when I am doing the big updates from MS Windows.

 

 

Anyways here is the specs of the 2 systems if you need them.

 

 

Ok here the 1st PC Specs..

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

 

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb Quad-Core 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX

 

CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M4A1333C9

 

SAPPHIRE 100282SR Radeon HD 5850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card w/ATI Eyefinity

 

2 x LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 LightScribe Support

 

CORSAIR Enthusiast Series CP-9020042-NA 750W ATX12V v2.31/ EPS12V v2.92 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

 

 

 

Here is my 2nd PC system specs this system is my slowest PC I have which I only use for web surfing and downloads still runs great..

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

 

DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard

 

AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+ Socket 939

 

EVGA 256-P2-N529-AX GeForce 7800GTX 256MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Support Video Card

 

HyperX 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model KHX3200AK2/2G

 

APEVIA JAVA ATX-JV650W 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Power Supply

[runit3]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-virtual-memory-size#1TC=windows-7

 

Increase virtual memory, see if that knocks out the problems.

[DarthVader1022]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-virtual-memory-size#1TC=windows-7

 

Increase virtual memory, see if that knocks out the problems.

Thank You for the info I will give this a try the next time I load windows..

[runit3]

Thank You for the info I will give this a try the next time I load windows..

Without a screen shot of the exact error that's my best guess. 90% sure it's a virtual memory/page file issue, although with the 8GB rig it would be a really odd error as the page file should be ~8GB unless you had tried installing w/2GB first then swapped up to 8GB. (Page file default size is 1.5 x 1GB or less installed, or 1:1 +300MB over 1GB RAM installed).

[DarthVader1022]

Without a screen shot of the exact error that's my best guess. 90% sure it's a virtual memory/page file issue, although with the 8GB rig it would be a really odd error as the page file should be ~8GB unless you had tried installing w/2GB first then swapped up to 8GB. (Page file default size is 1.5 x 1GB or less installed, or 1:1 +300MB over 1GB RAM installed).

I understand I am not sure why I get the error as I mentioned it only happens when doing the Windows update and this was the first and last couple times I have seen this on ether PC,the only way that I seem to HAVE solve the issue was not to download and install so many updates at once,if I do half of the 190 updates I get I do not get the warning.

 

Thanks for your help,I will try your method the next time I have to reload Windows which I do it this week sometime as I have a 2 extra Hard Drive I want to do again on both PC's

[runit3]

I understand I am not sure why I get the error as I mentioned it only happens when doing the Windows update and this was the first and last couple times I have seen this on ether PC,the only way that I seem to HAVE solve the issue was not to download and install so many updates at once,if I do half of the 190 updates I get I do not get the warning.

 

Thanks for your help,I will try your method the next time I have to reload Windows which I do it this week sometime as I have a 2 extra Hard Drive I want to do again on both PC's

It's a really odd error to get when updating Windows. I know the exact downloads you're talking about because I run an OEM pre-SP1 Win 7 install on all my rigs when I'm building them, then upgrade later if the person want's the scourge that is Win 8.1. I'll hit 2 rounds of ~180 updates, one pre-SP1 and then one post-SP1, but I've never seen the total download size get above 1GB. :unsure:

 

For the 2GB machine you'll want to increase the page file size anyways, you'll probably run into that same memory error if you loaded up a ton of tabs in Chrome, which would also be a good way to test the error.