Originally Posted by MrMaxwell

My laptop has 4gb of ram but I sometimes max it out all to hell, so, a paging file is necessary. I keep it defragmented (including the pagefile using boot time defrag) and to a set size, but I end up with the thing crawling when it's paging heavily. I tried creating a 1gb virtual drive for the paging file, where 3gb is for the system and then a "virtual drive" takes up 1gb of ram to use exclusively for the paging file....

The PROBLEM is that when the ram is full and it's paging out over a gig, it gets confused and BSODs out on me.

Is there a way to fix that?
I don't want to have to buy an SSD. It's an older K50IJ laptop.. core2duo... 4gb ram max.. but it's a workhorse and more than fine for day to day use. I would just like to be able to max the ram out all to hell without problems.

I would think with a 1gb set paging file size, it should page out to it overwriting anything that is already there, but I guess it just ends up getting too damned full... And if there is nowhere to go it just crashes.. right? Then if I let it put a pagefile on the HD, back to crawling