i got my k7s5a up & running yesterday. the problem is, now every time i boot up, the pagefile has disappeared. i get the, "your paging file is too small, & a temporary one has been created" error message every time. then, every time, i go & fix the problem, & the pagefile is created. i check to see that they're all there, & reboot, & the same problem happens again. the values for the pagefile are still displayed both in the "performance options" window, & in the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager|MemoryManagement|\PagingFiles it seems that windows will simply not read them. this is windows 2000 service pack 2. this problem happened on my initial install, & i have since re-installed windows 2000 two more times with the same result. all memory timings are set to default, & all drivers and the bios are the updated versions. on my latest installation, no problems occurred until after i ran the sisoft sandra drive benchmark. this is probably because it was the first time since the installation that the entire pagefile was used. i have tried placing the memory in both memory slots & using 2 different sticks of memory. one 128MB, one 256MB, both DDR, both crucial RAM. i have tried other venues for obtaining help, to no avail. see the thread on this forum that i started: http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.php?s=d1008caf486d66b62f76ce5a61c06dae&threadid=101880

I don't think you should change the standard pagefile size, you may want to use another disk for the pagefile, though. Your pagefile should not be smaller than 1,5 time your physical memory even if you have plenty of memory (I have 528 MB and still have a 768 MB pagefile)

I have had the same problem today! I downloaded some CD cloning software and my previously working O/S setup is now giving me the exact message. Anyone with an answer to what can be done here would be welcomed.

We had a similar problem with a new install on a brand new machine. Windows 2000 basically saw the hard drive as full when you would look at the propeties for the hard drive. Of course disk administrator saw the drive as healthy. We ended up re-formatting and re-installing Windows 2000 and then it finally worked, once it saw the hard drive as empty in the propeties window.

Travis and Marky : Is this the solution or ? Please let me know Thanks Theo You can use the Recovery Console (RC) to solve some problems and make some repairs that you can't resolve with an Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) or Safe Mode. Three of the more common tasks the RC can help with are deleting a pagefile, disabling a driver or service, and recovering the SYSTEM hive. How to Delete a Pagefile A failure during Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 Setup (or service pack installation) sometimes produces a very small temporary pagefile that prevents the OS from creating a larger, permanent file. When this happens, the OS boots and uses only the temporary file, which slows performance to a snail's pace. You can't delete the temporary pagefile while the OS is running because the file is open and in use. Worse, when a temporary file exists, the OS won't create a permanent pagefile even after you configure a permanent, correctly sized pagefile. You can use the RC to delete either a temporary or permanent pagefile, but the procedure isn't exactly straightforward: Before you boot to the RC, verify the exact location of the temporary or permanent pagefile. Both Win2K and NT 4.0 place a permanent pagefile at the top of a partition and a temporary pagefile in the system root. In Windows Explorer, search for a file named pagefile to identify the partition and directory of a permanent or temporary file. Set the default location to the location of the pagefile. If the pagefile is in the root of the C partition and C is your default partition, go to the command prompt (C:\). If the pagefile is in the system root and your system root is \winnt32, enter cd C:\winnt32 To make the pagefile visible to the RC, you need to overwrite it with the contents of another file. To do so, copy any file to the same location as the pagefile and rename the copied file to pagefile.sys. For example, to copy and rename a file called help.txt, you'd type copy help.txt pagefile.sys Type delete pagefile.sys to delete the pagefile that you just created. Use the Exit command at the RC prompt to restart the system. When you reboot, Win2K notices the absence of the pagefile and uses Virtual Memory settings from System Properties, Advanced, Performance Options to recreate it. On my Win2K notebook, this procedure also created a new hiberfile.sys file that Win2K uses to save the OS state during hibernation.

i haven't changed the pagefile size @ all, & there's only one hdd in the system. the pagefile size @ default for my 256MB of crucial ddr is 384-768MB. just got this from T.E.M. Lockefeer: You can use the Recovery Console (RC) to solve some problems and make some repairs that you can't resolve with an Emergency Repair Disk (ERD) or Safe Mode. Three of the more common tasks the RC can help with are deleting a pagefile, disabling a driver or service, and recovering the SYSTEM hive. How to Delete a Pagefile A failure during Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 Setup (or service pack installation) sometimes produces a very small temporary pagefile that prevents the OS from creating a larger, permanent file. When this happens, the OS boots and uses only the temporary file, which slows performance to a snail's pace. You can't delete the temporary pagefile while the OS is running because the file is open and in use. Worse, when a temporary file exists, the OS won't create a permanent pagefile even after you configure a permanent, correctly sized pagefile. You can use the RC to delete either a temporary or permanent pagefile, but the procedure isn't exactly straightforward: 1.. Before you boot to the RC, verify the exact location of the temporary or permanent pagefile. Both Win2K and NT 4.0 place a permanent pagefile at the top of a partition and a temporary pagefile in the system root. In Windows Explorer, search for a file named pagefile to identify the partition and directory of a permanent or temporary file. 2.. Set the default location to the location of the pagefile. If the pagefile is in the root of the C partition and C is your default partition, go to the command prompt (C:\). If the pagefile is in the system root and your system root is \winnt32, enter cd C:\winnt32 3.. To make the pagefile visible to the RC, you need to overwrite it with the contents of another file. To do so, copy any file to the same location as the pagefile and rename the copied file to pagefile.sys. For example, to copy and rename a file called help.txt, you'd type copy help.txt pagefile.sys 4.. Type delete pagefile.systo delete the pagefile that you just created. 5.. Use the Exit command at the RC prompt to restart the system. When you reboot, Win2K notices the absence of the pagefile and uses Virtual Memory settings from System Properties, Advanced, Performance Options to recreate it. On my Win2K notebook, this procedure also created a new hiberfile.sys file that Win2K uses to save the OS state during hibernation.

okay, i'll be trying theo's suggestion w/in the hour & will let you all know what i come up with. the question is, will this pagefile reset solve the problem, or just put it off for the meantime? as you've read, this is the 3rd install on this machine that i'm going thru, & the problem has popped up each time. i know the partition has enough space, as it is a 3gb partition, & holds ONLY the system files, drivers, etc. that the OS uses.