Access Memory Limit?

[GUIDO22]

I have been running Access '97 for some time now on XP with no problems at all. I recently decided to upgrade the computers RAM from 256MB to 768MB. The chips are the same specification DDR-2700 and I have installed the chips correctly with the highest memory card in slot 1 then the other in slot 2.

Windows XP boots fine and recognises the new memory capacity - however I try and run Access (with no othger apps. open), and it errors with 'Out of Memory' messagebox. I 'OK' this and a grey dialog appears with information about too many apps. running - try closing etc. but this is from a clean boot with nothing running. All other day to day applications seemingly run as normal (and not all are post 2000 apps-other 97 Office apps. run fine...).

I then removed the 256MB memory card and rebooted. XP recognises 512MB of memory and this time Access runs as usual.

Is there some upper memory limit that Access 97 cannot reach hence the error message? So, instead of tripling the memory on my machine I am running on double. Better than nothing but of course would love to be able to use both cards..... any ideas please?

TIAFYH
Regards
Guy

 

[JSDART!!]

Out of memory

I experienced multiple out of memory messages with Access97 found the only way around it was to conver up to Access 2003

 

[ghudson]

Just a guess. Access 97 is so old and built for Windows 9x. Windows 9x computers could not handle the extra ram and most Windows 9x computers had problems or performance issues if you increased your ram beyond 128 megs.