Ok* * I just went and upgraded my computer to this....

Processor Intel® Pentium® D procesor 930
3.0 GB
800 MHz front side bus
L2 cache: 1 MB x2
775-pin package

Memory 2048 MB DDR2 533 MHz (PC2-4200) SDRAM (four 512 MB modules)
Expandable to: 4 GB

Video NVIDIA 6200 64 MB Turbo cache video card
TV Tuner Card Powercolor Tul Theater 550 PRO TV tuner
Integrated Audio Intel High Definition Audio subsystem consisting of:
8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one S/PDIF optical digital audio output using the Sigmatel® 9220 audio codec

Hard Drive 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA2 hard drive
Optical Drives Double layer 16X DVD+/-RW drive
16X DVD-ROM drive

Media Reader 9-in-1 Digital Media Manager supporting the following:

CompactFlash Card
IBM MicroDrive
Memory Stick
Memory Stick Pro
SmartMedia Card
Secure Digital(SD)/MMC
Compact Flash
Multimedia Card
xD-Picture Card
USB 1.1

Modem 56K ITU V.92 ready Fax/Modem
Network Integrated 10/100 LAN
Interfaces PS/2 keyboard port
PS/2 mouse port
Seven USB 2.0 ports (four on rear panel, two on front panel, one in media reader)
Three IEEE-1394a connectors (one on rear panel, two on front-panel)
One VGA monitor port
One parallel port
One serial port
One RJ-45 LAN port
Seven audio jacks (five on rear panel, two on front panel)
One S/PDIF digital audio out

Add-In Card Slots One PCI-Express ×16
One PCI-E ×1
Two PCI Conventional

Drive Bays Two external 3.5-inch
Two external 5.25-inch
Two internal 3.5-inch

Input Devices Multimedia keyboard
USB optical mouse
Media Center remote control

Speakers Amplified stereo speakers
Dimensions (H × W × D) 15.4 × 7.3 × 17.9 inches
Weight 23.5 lbs (computer only, no packaging)

I actually bought a diffrent graphic card though.

Ati Radion 1600 pro
512 mb DDR2

here is the problem, 

I am TRYING to render a image that will take around 40 hours to completely render. but when I stop it and save it, so I can save the resume render incase anything happens, I go and click resume render, and it tells me I ran out of memory, this don't even do this on my laptop, and it half of the above. what is going on? any ideas? BTW it is fine if I save and close Vue, then reopen and resume that way. But I don't think I should have to close the program to resume it again. LOL. 

Emily

OH I am using Vue 6 Infinite

Indeed, you shouldn't have this problem. Do you use a Ram manager? I use FreeRam XP Pro ( free), and though it isn't entirely reliable when displaying available RAM, it gives a good approxiamtion of the memory you have left ( as long as you're not  using the swap file for memory, then Free RamXP Pro is useless)
You would be able to see how much mlemory you have and see if it is normal or not. But I suspect is isn't normal anyway. Maybe you should open a support ticket at e-on's.
It's the first time I hear about your problem.

thanks bruno21, I just went and downloaded freeram xp. nice lil freebie.

Just don't allow it to free ram by itself, because it could do it in a middle of a render or when loading a Poser figure with huge textures, and then you'll have to wait a long time before being able to work again.

Have you tried using Vue 6's stand-alone renderer? You might have better luck without trying to run the rest of the program.

bruno021,

Thanks for the FreeRam tip.  Now I can see Vue is gobbling up 250 megs everytime I load a vob.  Rendering only shows a couple of rams used, so now I know where the problem lies and can recover before another crash.

250megs for a vob? this is huge. Are they xfrog or onyx tree models? Or poser figures?
Anyway, glad you like this cool little utility.