Jaxxar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Here is a walk through for you: Virtual RAM Management Just follow the link to the Microsoft website. Edited January 6, 2012 by Jaxxar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrais Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory That is directions in reverse... It will at least show you whether or not Windows is managing it, or if it's manually setup. (I highly recommend letting Windows manage it honestly.) I would also stop memory-sharing with your video card asap. I followed the directions and got to the last page and it had 8988 MB in the box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocho-Quatro Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I followed the directions and got to the last page and it had 8988 MB in the box That conflicts with your previous report which stated it was over 10gb...... Is it set to be managed automatically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrais Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 That conflicts with your previous report which stated it was over 10gb...... Is it set to be managed automatically? It wasn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocho-Quatro Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 It wasn't Make it be so. Then work on the graphics memory issue..... and remember, Google is your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxxar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 I am pretty sure the shared memory settings will be in your BIOS. You should be able to turn it off there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmalyse Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 If your computer is using that much of your pagefile it probably means you have far too many processes running in the background, which could simply be taxing your processor or causing disk thrashing. If Windows is setting your pagefile to 10GB, something is terribly wrong. Manually set it to match the amount of RAM you have in your computer. If your video card is sharing 2GB of memory with your computer, set the pagefile to 6GB. It doesn't look like you do, but, if you have a secondary drive (not an external drive or a secondary partition, but an actual second hard drive) I'd recommend forcing the pagefile to that drive as well. And you should still post a report from HijackThis so we can see what/how many processes are running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxxar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Your getting good advice form several people here. If none of this helping you might need to replace that card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrais Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 I am pretty sure the shared memory settings will be in your BIOS. You should be able to turn it off there. Wheres that located? I am an idiot when it comes to computers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxxar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Wheres that located? I am an idiot when it comes to computers Messing with BIOS can destroy your system. Do you have a friend that knows how to work on computers to give you a hand? Edited January 6, 2012 by Jaxxar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrais Posted January 6, 2012 Author Share Posted January 6, 2012 Messing with BIOS can destroy your system. Do you have a friend that knows how to work on computers to give you a hand? Nope...fun times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocho-Quatro Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Wheres that located? I am an idiot when it comes to computers http://michaelstevenstech.com/lenovoBIOS.html Be careful though... You can eff things up real quick with swift/poor decisions in the BIOS.... and if i recall correctly, Lenovo BIOS's are locked with a hardware-encoded password, that you MUST know in order to access the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxxar Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 (edited) Be very careful with the BIOS if you are going to poke around in it. I have to log out and get back to my other repairs, good luck to you. Edited January 6, 2012 by Jaxxar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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