Saving problems and errors

I am a computer tech with a user who is having multiple problems with
Solidworks 2003. I am no Solidworks expert by any means. He has the
following for a computer:

P4 2.4 GHz
1,024 MB of PC2100 RAM
32.0 GB Hard drive
533 MHz Front side Bus
Nvidia Quadro 4 (990XGL or somthing like that) for video
5,000 MB swap file running Windows 2000 SP4

He works from his hard drive (not the network). His assemblies contain
about 1750 parts. He has many problems saving. Usually "Solidworks is
unable to obtain the required memory". Is this normal? I have talked
with our Solidworks reseller and they don't have a clue. He is on the
newest service pack so that is no option. What can he or I do to take
care of this. I was looking to get two 1 gig RAM chips but they are
$1300.00 a piece. That really isn't an option. If you have any ideas
please let me know.

Thanks,

 

I don't think SW 2003 is compatible with Win2000 SP4. Back up to SP3.

You might also want to reduce the swap file to about 2.5 gig, your just
wasting space, and possibly causing problems. There is an upper memory limit
for windows.

Mark

 

He does have service pack 3 instead of 4 (my mistake). Also Solidworks
told me to set the swap file at 3 to 4 Gig. I just followed what he
said. Also I was checking on another board which said that your cache
should be 10% of the amount of RAM. I have 1,024 MB of RAM and I have
a P4 with 512K of cache. Would it be a good idea to move to a Pentium
Xeon with 1MB of cache? I will try lowering his swap file down to 2.5
GB. Also what memory limitations does Windows have?