Repeated "Not enough system resources to display completely error" on brand new laptop. Is it a lemon?

d0rian

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Just dropped a lot of money on a brand new Lenovo P17 workstation laptop. When I'm working in the same Excel (2007) file that I've been using for years (to run stock trading calculations), I'm getting repeated "Not enough system resources to display completely error" popup errors. (The error doesn't seem to impact the file functionality...but it's popping up nearly every time I change the zoom or use the scroll wheel to scroll down the page.

The error implies that system resources are an issue, but there's no way that's true: this is a very souped-up machine w/ 64GB RAM, etc. And again: it has run on at least 5 different laptops (all less powerful) over the last several years without ever generating this error.

I've found some threads suggesting that it may not be a symptom of something important wrong with the laptop (or faulty RAM)...but that instead it might be some weird Excel zoom-related quirk. That being said, I've never gotten this error popup before and if it's symptomatic of something wrong with this very expensive new laptop, I'd rather return it while I still can.
Any help?
 

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