Re: 4GB slow.......2GB fast...Vista Ultimate 64bit installation
Hi
I see you have an Intel board. Recently when I checked for updated drivers
for my Intel board, I saw that there is also a BIOS update available that
fixes a problem similar to what you described. I've pasted the information
below from the release notes of the BIOS update. Although it seems that this
update does not apply to your board but maybe you should check Intel's site
for an update.
Regards
Franco
PRODUCTS: DP965LT, DG965SS, DG965RY, DG965PZ, DG965OT,
DG965MS, DG965MQ, DQ963FX, DQ963GS (Standard BIOS)
BIOS Version 1676
About This Release:
April 13, 2007
MQ96510J.86A.1676.2007.0413.0149
VBIOS info: Build Number: 1436 PC 14.21 02/05/2007 17:31:04.
SATA RAID info: Intel(R) RAID for SATA - v6.1.0.1002
SATA AHCI info: Version UPSD src 09-13-2006
PXE Nahum info: Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.42
ME firmware build: 2.0.5.1124 production signed.
New Fixes/Features:
Updated processor support.
Changed the manufacturing SATA Type default to follow customer
default.
Fixed issue where incorrect resource being allocated to PCI/PCIe
devices when ISA_EN bit enabled in the bridge.
Fixed issue where system would run slow with 4 GB of RAM and
certain PCI Express Graphics cards.
Removed an 8 second delay from the ACHI option ROM to speed up
POST.
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:34:00 -0700, Redphinz
<Redphinz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I clean installed Vista Ultimate 64 on my machine and experienced
>> extremely
>> slow performance across all conditions, including boot, idle,
>> applications.
>> Almost unusable. I would open taskmgr and see that taskmgr.exe was
>> taking up
>> one of the cpu cores entirely. To copy a 20mb file would take 5 minutes.
>> To
>> load the device manager would take 5 minutes. Boot would take a solid 10
>> minutes. I removed 2 1GB sticks of ram and the system is very responsive
>> and
>> fast now. Boot time is very quick as well.
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this? Is there a patch? I'd really like to use
>> all
>> of my ram since I work my machine quite heavily and would use all of it.
Obviously from the expert replies, no one has ever even tried using 4 gigs
of ram in a 32 bit machine.
Yes it's going to be slower. If not impossible to use. I tried several ways
with XP, even using some recommended /? switch in the boot settings. To no
avail.
1st off a 32 bit machine can't use or see much over 2 gigs ram. So you have
2 dust catchers that you'd be better off selling for what you can get. But
remove them before they burn up your machine. With 3 gigs installed, you can
see a bit more than 2 gigs. Actually with 2 gigs, you can see a bit more
than 2 gigs depending on the sticks.
My 4 gigs and the recommended switch made it even slower and less
responsive. Can you say 300 baud modem on a Timex 1000 ?
But I wasn't as lucky. The 4 gigs burned up my P4P. They now just sit in a
bag collecting dust. My Vista is fully loaded with 2 gigs, and runs just
fine. But even 2 gigs doesn't stop this vista machine from going
non-responsive any time I want it to. Hit the explorer top bar twice while
it's loading a page... 'Internet explorer not responding', and page goes
gray. 2 minutes later after it recovers, the page shows, and the gray
disappears.
I can get it to 'not responding' any time I want, just hit the page twice.
any program.
For that reason alone I still preferred XP. It NEVER went non-responsive,
even with a 50 meg image loaded into Photoshop.
all the above refers to a 32 bit machine and XP Pro OS.
You say it's x64. but in another reply you say it's 32 bit.
64 bit should work. I've never had or needed a 64 bit machine, so anything
I'd say about 64 bit would be parroting what I've read or heard. Not to be
trusted.
One thing missing below.. power supply wattage. I went round & round with HP
about upgrading the windows video card. their recommendation was for a card
that required a larger power supply than the machine had.
That right there will seriously impair things a mis matched video card with
a power supply. Make sure PS has enough power to power the card, and other
peripherals.
>>
>> Intel DG965WH board (BIOS 1676)
>> Intel Core 2 E6300
>> 4GB Crucial Ballistix 4x1
>> Nvidia 8800GTS 320
>> Seagate 7200.10 sATA drive
>> WD raptor
>> Windows Vista Ultimate x64
>>
>> Thank you for any help!!!
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