First and Foremost, I have no Viruses or Adware, It's a clean and new O.S..

This is weird.. I have a Gateway Computer, Intel P4 2.5GHZ, 706MB of RAM running on Windows XP SP1.... I had it for about a year, and it ran fine. I usually reinstall Windows once a month, well, the last 2 installs, i've found that my memory gets too low now, waaaaay too quick.. If i let the computer sit for 20 minutes or so, then TRY to start programs back up, they won't load.. They all get stuck at 64K in the memory in task manager.. I KEEP having to restart about every 30 minutes!! I have a 512MB and 256MB stick of DDR memory inserted..   I had no recent hardware changes besides the installs of XP..  I usually surf on Internet Explorer, but now, i'm only allowed to surf for 20 minutes, then usually the applications fail and is unresponsive.. After I close try to reopen IE, or any other heavy program, they simply won't load.. I'm torturously forced to restart my computer every 30 minutes!!! and Does any one know a way for me to trouble shoot all of this, or any suggestions?
Well you must have a viruses or spyware.


I dont know what it could be.


Errmmmmm

try microsoft anti-spyware

R0SSDoesn't DDR require 2 chips of the same size to function properly? (I know this will not solve the problem.)

I always enjoyed a reinstall of Windows, but it sounds like you are doing it waaaaaaay too often. There is something seriously amiss here.

There is some background process at work here eating up your CPU/RAM usage. Usually these are viruses/trojans, etc. You SAID you are clean, but what have you used?

Have you contacted Gateway about this issue or done a Google search to see if this is a widespread problem?

hang in there. Quote

...It's a clean and new O.S...Windows XP SP1....

sonofisis.....First , let me say that you have sufficient ram for Xp to work well ......But given that you are unable to update your AV and can't access the internet , suggests to me that there is probably a virus present.
So ...I suggest trying this .
1..Turn off your system restore .
2..Shut down and restart in SAFE mode.
3..Run you anti virus in safe mode ......deleting anything it finds.
4...Run SpyBot and ad-Aware and of course remove anything it finds .
5...Reboot into Normal mode , go online and attempt to update your anti virus.
6...Rescan your pc .....again with your updated AV .
7...Go to Windows update page and get all the updates ...Including SP2 ....
8...Then D/L and install M/S antispyware Beta ........
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
This is probably one of the better pest removers out there right now . ( it won't find everthing , but used in conjunction with the others , your puter will stay reasonably clean.)
9.... If your pc seems to be running ok .......turn back on your system restore .

Let us know how it goes .

dl65  

remove the added ram stick and test pc......

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I'm using RAM Def 2.5 and it regulates the memory well.. At first IE wouldn't open at all after like 30 minutes of running.. Now it opens fine, but it won't connect to the Net.. My anti virus still runs, but won't live update..  The internet won't connect.
Weird problem..