It's MS KB Q253912 at
It's captioned "Out of Memory" error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM
Installed but it's the one.
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Greenbank" <steve@gccl.fsbusiness.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: LS4000 reboot problem
| I don't know if you have already dealt with this problem, but ...
|
| There is a Win 98/98SE problem where the disk caching locks up the system
if
| you have more than 512MB of physical RAM. There's an article in the
| Microsoft Knowledge database somewhere.
| Their workarounds are if memory serves correct:
|
| 1) Use msconfig to set the machines maximum memory to 512MB in Windows.
| Quite a dumb solution if you ask me.
| 2) FIRST MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI" file then Edit
| C:\windows\system.ini and set a maximum file cache to less than 512MB -
I'd
| suggest something around the size of 16bit 4000dpi filescan which is
approx
| 108MB. So in the file "system.ini" look for the section marked [vcache]
add
| the following line for 108MB :
|
| MaxFileCache=110592
|
| This will leave your system.ini file looking like this:
|
| [vcache]
| MaxFileCache=110592
|
| The value after "MaxFileCache=" is 1024*n (where n is the number of MB
you
| wish to use as cache).
|
| Regards
|
| Steve
|
| P.S. Anyone running with limited memory (less than approx 3x scan_size)
you
| may wish to try setting MaxFileCache to quite a low value (16384 or 8192,
| perhaps). This will leave more memory to your photo-editting application
| which may help it to run more smoothly, unfortuantely it will also slow
| reading and saving large files. It depends what you find most
inconvenient.
|
| Right now I'd say memory is cheap (IMHO) and if your machine can take it,
| and you have the money, buy some more.
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Paul Chefurka" <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
| To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
| Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 6:03 PM
| Subject: filmscanners: LS4000 reboot problem
|
|
| > I just got a Nikon LS4000 to replace my Polaroid SS4000. It's a
wonderful
| scanner, especially when used with Vuescan.
| >
| > However... I'm running it on a Win98SE box with 768MB of RAM Whenever
I
| reboot my system, if the Firewire cable is plugged in the system hangs
about
| halfway into the Windows boot. If I unplug the FW cable it boots
properly.
| It smells to me like an interrupt problem with the Firewire driver (I
| installed Nikon's upgraded driver from the CD). I tried taking out the
SCSI
| card that was running my Polaroid to see if there was a conflict, but it
| didn't help.
| >
| > Has anyone else had this problem? Any trouble-shooting ideas? Should I
| consider upgrading to Win2K?
| >
| > Paul Chefurka
| >
|
|
