Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower now

[Guest Rune Moberg]

Re: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

Re: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

"Theo" <theo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> And that's directly from the genuine, official Microsoft web site. what

> more can you ask for?

 

Sigh. There is a reason I wrote "I know you need a pagefile on the system

drive in order to generate a memory

dump.". But on a home user's system that is fairly stable, you do not bother

investigating a BSOD unless it happens frequently (once a month or more

frequent) and then you can increase the page file size if you so desire.

Lately, you can't do anything with the memory dump anyway, because many

driver writers do not care that they trigger BSODs. (i.e. no place to submit

the dumps) On a server: Yes, go ahead, make sure you capture the dump. On a

client: Don't bother.

 

Note that the same article then goes on to explain how to monitor page file

activity in order to determine its optimal setting. (i.e. not allocate more

than you actually use)

 

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Rune

[Guest Walt G]

RE: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower now

 

Some additional thoughts on this problem.

 

I've had a very similar problem with Vista 64. Brief history:

 

Have been running Vista Ultimate 32 for 6 months..system configuration:

Intel dual core on Intel DG965 series motherboard, 4G memory (1GX4). Vista

performance relatively crisp. Boot time from initial progress bar to logon

prompt approximately 20 seconds.

 

Installed Vista 64 on an alternate partition. Performance very sluggish.

Boot time over 3 minutes. Sound "stutters". Interestingly, performance

numbers in "Windows Experience" index almost identical to Vista 32; no

obvious problems. Free space on boot disk 40G. So, after reading this post, I

deinstalled 2G of memory, and performance dramatically improved (boot time

now 20 seconds).

 

A similar problem running the (Vista?) shell used in the Norton Ghost 12

boot CD in the past was rectified via BIOS upgrades (however, that problem

did not affect normal Vista performance). And the Norton shell boot at this

time is still relatively short. At least in my situation, this still makes me

suspect some type of unique interaction between Vista and motherboard at

memory sizes 4G and above. Will also be working with motherboard manufacturer.

 

I hope this sheds a little additional light.

 

"kungfumonkeyman" wrote:

> When I first installed Ultimate edition I was only running 2 gigs so I went

> and purchased 2 x 2gig sticks and installed them. My computer has been

> running much slower than before so I thought that maybe one of the ram slots

> on my mobo was bad or that one of the new sticks was bad but I am reading all

> 6 gigs and I even swapped out all my chips in different slots and it seems

> that when I am running with just 2 gigs everything is fine, no matter if I am

> running with 2 x 1gig or with just 1 x 2gig. It is getting pretty annoying

> and was hoping that someone might have some advice on anything that I could

> try. Thank You

[Guest Walt G]

RE: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

RE: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

Update. No information on manufacturer website that I could find. However, I

experimented with several older BIOS levels (I was on most current), and a

level from April 2007 resolved the issue. Shows how obscure the source of a

problem can sometimes be, I guess.

 

kfmm, hope this helps in some way.

 

"Walt G" wrote:

> Some additional thoughts on this problem.

>

> I've had a very similar problem with Vista 64. Brief history:

>

> Have been running Vista Ultimate 32 for 6 months..system configuration:

> Intel dual core on Intel DG965 series motherboard, 4G memory (1GX4). Vista

> performance relatively crisp. Boot time from initial progress bar to logon

> prompt approximately 20 seconds.

>

> Installed Vista 64 on an alternate partition. Performance very sluggish.

> Boot time over 3 minutes. Sound "stutters". Interestingly, performance

> numbers in "Windows Experience" index almost identical to Vista 32; no

> obvious problems. Free space on boot disk 40G. So, after reading this post, I

> deinstalled 2G of memory, and performance dramatically improved (boot time

> now 20 seconds).

>

> A similar problem running the (Vista?) shell used in the Norton Ghost 12

> boot CD in the past was rectified via BIOS upgrades (however, that problem

> did not affect normal Vista performance). And the Norton shell boot at this

> time is still relatively short. At least in my situation, this still makes me

> suspect some type of unique interaction between Vista and motherboard at

> memory sizes 4G and above. Will also be working with motherboard manufacturer.

>

> I hope this sheds a little additional light.

>

> "kungfumonkeyman" wrote:

>

> > When I first installed Ultimate edition I was only running 2 gigs so I went

> > and purchased 2 x 2gig sticks and installed them. My computer has been

> > running much slower than before so I thought that maybe one of the ram slots

> > on my mobo was bad or that one of the new sticks was bad but I am reading all

> > 6 gigs and I even swapped out all my chips in different slots and it seems

> > that when I am running with just 2 gigs everything is fine, no matter if I am

> > running with 2 x 1gig or with just 1 x 2gig. It is getting pretty annoying

> > and was hoping that someone might have some advice on anything that I could

> > try. Thank You

[Guest Tom Lake]

Re: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower now

 

 

 

"Walt G" <WaltG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:3B88B075-6E39-4C50-91BA-0997BFC8BA04@microsoft.com...

> Update. No information on manufacturer website that I could find. However, I

> experimented with several older BIOS levels (I was on most current), and a

> level from April 2007 resolved the issue. Shows how obscure the source of a

> problem can sometimes be, I guess.

 

What revision was that? I have an Intel DG965WH with 1719 and going over 4 GB

does slow it down. All 8 GB tests good.

 

Tom Lake

[Guest Walt G]

Re: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

Re: Installed 6 gigs of Ram in Vista Ultimate x64 and its slower n

 

Tom,

 

I went back from 1719 to 1669 and the problem disappeared. BTW, am also

running the DG965WH, with 667 speed memory. However, here is another twist

discovered yesterday.

 

I was planning on installing a graphics card (EVGA Nvidia 8400 GS), and

reading the BIOS release notes, noted that level 1676 fixed a compatibility

problem with PCI-e graphics cards with 4G RAM installed on the system. So I

decided to try 1719 again, this time with the graphics card installed. Vista

64 runs crisply in that configuration. It would appear that there is still

something amiss in the 965 board memory management, but at least it has

disappeared for now. I suspect the change in 1676 has something to do with

it, but that is just a guess.

 

Walt

 

"Tom Lake" wrote:

>

>

> "Walt G" <WaltG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:3B88B075-6E39-4C50-91BA-0997BFC8BA04@microsoft.com...

> > Update. No information on manufacturer website that I could find. However, I

> > experimented with several older BIOS levels (I was on most current), and a

> > level from April 2007 resolved the issue. Shows how obscure the source of a

> > problem can sometimes be, I guess.

>

> What revision was that? I have an Intel DG965WH with 1719 and going over 4 GB

> does slow it down. All 8 GB tests good.

>

> Tom Lake

>