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keep failing to solve 'insufficient resources' problem in windows 7
This problem is getting pretty old, and I've gone through a lot of searches and potential solutions already. Please read 'solutions tried' before answering...
Details about my systems.
1) The older computer: Samsung HDD, 6GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, running on Asus P5K mainboard. Four times as much software installed as on the new one,. Easily reaches one or two months of uptime without rebooting windows. Never runs out of resources.
2) The new computer: OCZ Vertex 4, i7-3770 CPU, GTX 670, 8GB CL8 RAM, Asus P8Z77i-Deluxe (not overclocked). This system has only a small subset of the software installed that resides on the old system.
Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1 with updates and drivers current on both machines.
The Problem: After running the new machine for 30 minutes to an hour, it will fail even small tasks like copying a file with an "Error 1450: insufficient resources exist to complete..."
Causes pretty much ruled out so far:
- Installed Software other than drivers, since none of my software produces any such problem on my old machine
- Registry size - this Registry is half the size of the one on the old computer
- Virus - Kaspersky has a pretty good reputation and should find pretty much everything when run from outside windows. Windows Security Essentials, Windows Defender and Sphinx Software firewall are always active.
- Available hard drive space - 256GB windows drive is less than half full.
- RAM, Swapfile and CPU utilization: all 3 show well below 50% usage at any given time.
- Temperatures - the system runs perfectly cool, using Asus Fan Control, everything stays around 85-95F.
Solutions tried:
- 3 different Microsoft KB's regarding max handles (set to max)
- 1 Microsoft KB regarding max registry size (set to max)
- Tracking Handles with ProcessExplorer.exe
- Trackign Handles with handles.exe
- scouring system logs for errors (found nothing that gave me any clue)
- Uninstalling or disabling autorun for all non-essential software.
- Uninstalling nonessential mainboard drivers, Asus Utilities etc
- Tried different Nvidia drivers
- used Registry cleaner
- used System File Checker (SFC /scannow)
- ran Windows Security Essentials full system scan
- used Kaspersky Antivirus from its own boot disk with newest definitions
- Sysinternals Rootkit Revealer (I'm not really pro at evaluating the results on that)
- CC Cleaner
- Malwarebytes
- tested RAM with memtest
- manually underclocked RAM
- asked all my programmer friends...
They just told me the same Microsoft KB's that I had already found when googling my error.
Possibly interesting fact:
Using ProcessExplorer.exe or Handles.exe, once the problem becomes acute, will both fail with the message "Insufficient system resources to get handle information."
So, the very trouble shooting tools I try to use quit working.
I just tested it again: Since cold boot on this sytem, I have run nothing except internet explorer, opened this forum and have been typing this for ~15 minutes. I have 6 tabs open from my search. That's all! Still, as soon as I start up Process Explorer, it pops the error message. If I start it as the first thing, it will track handles ok until the system runs out of resources. But I don't really know what I'm looking for, I don't see any one process have way more handles than any of the other processes. Nothing looks conspicuously out of order.
If I ignore the fact that some programs start refusing to run (can't load DirectX after it runs out of resources, can't copy etc) and keep running the browser, maybe use word and excel (which oddly always start fine), it'll continue chugging along for some time still. It does not BSOD, it'll just hard freeze, so I have to hit reset.
Any of my 'bigger' Software including games will run fine, as long as I start it right after a reboot - even for hours on end. But once I close and try to start it again, no cigar, until reboot.
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Could this be a hardware problem of some sort? Or could one of Asus' or Intel's drivers be bad and leak resources like no tomorrow? Is there a better way for me to trouble shoot?
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Any advice would be much appreciated, hope this is the right section of the forum...
Last edited by n13l5; 25 Oct 2012 at 19:32. Reason: additonal info