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stumped with getting more than 8 gigs of ram to work with x64 Vista
Sorry its meant to be 4 gigs of ram in subject Hi I recenetly purchased 64 bit vista ultimate and i am very frustrated I cannot seem to get it to load or work properly without it taking ages (literally 5 minutes if at all) with 8 gigs of ram in As soon as i remove my 2 2gig modules out of the second channel of my motherboard it will load and do everything fine if i do the reverse and remove the first channel but leave the second ones in i get the same result works A ok. Ive reloaded the OS with the 8 gigs in and have downloaded and installed all 64bit drivers for my board. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!:cry::cry: Specs Core2duo E4600 2.4ghz 4x 2 Gigs Apacer DDR2 800mhz MSI Radeon RX3870 512mb Intel "frostburg" socket 775 board Yes the board does support 8 gigs of memory and yes ive checked my ram timings in my bios -- prozac5000 |
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stumped with getting more than 8 gigs of ram to work with x64 Vista
Have you checked for BIOS updates for your motherboard? What specific
motherboard model is this? Try turning off quick boot/post in the BIOS - it will run a slightly more comprehensive memory check. Also, try running the Windows memory diagnostic: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Finally, what do you mean by "...I cannot seem to get it to load..." - are we talking Vista here? Or the BIOS post screen? If you are talking Vista - F8 your way into Windows, and choose "enable boot logging". See if there is anything that takes an unusual amount of time. "prozac5000" wrote in message ... Sorry its meant to be 4 gigs of ram in subject Hi I recenetly purchased 64 bit vista ultimate and i am very frustrated I cannot seem to get it to load or work properly without it taking ages (literally 5 minutes if at all) with 8 gigs of ram in As soon as i remove my 2 2gig modules out of the second channel of my motherboard it will load and do everything fine if i do the reverse and remove the first channel but leave the second ones in i get the same result works A ok. Ive reloaded the OS with the 8 gigs in and have downloaded and installed all 64bit drivers for my board. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!:cry::cry: Specs Core2duo E4600 2.4ghz 4x 2 Gigs Apacer DDR2 800mhz MSI Radeon RX3870 512mb Intel "frostburg" socket 775 board Yes the board does support 8 gigs of memory and yes ive checked my ram timings in my bios -- prozac5000 |
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stumped with getting more than 8 gigs of ram to work with x64 Vista
prozak,
Many users have had with 4 dims installed either because they could not run at the rated speed and the user had to slow down the memory in their BIOS. Or because the power load of the 4 dims was more then could be supported at the default memory voltage and the voltage had to be increased using the BIOS. Any of these user who tried new Dims such as 2 2GB dims in your case had no trouble or when using one of the workaround discussed above Regretfully I can not provide more details on these workarounds. Hopefully one of the MVPs or someone else more familiar with 4 dim problems will respond to this thread with specific solutions to your configuration. "Timothy Davis [MSFT]" wrote in message ... Have you checked for BIOS updates for your motherboard? What specific motherboard model is this? Try turning off quick boot/post in the BIOS - it will run a slightly more comprehensive memory check. Also, try running the Windows memory diagnostic: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Finally, what do you mean by "...I cannot seem to get it to load..." - are we talking Vista here? Or the BIOS post screen? If you are talking Vista - F8 your way into Windows, and choose "enable boot logging". See if there is anything that takes an unusual amount of time. "prozac5000" wrote in message ... Sorry its meant to be 4 gigs of ram in subject Hi I recenetly purchased 64 bit vista ultimate and i am very frustrated I cannot seem to get it to load or work properly without it taking ages (literally 5 minutes if at all) with 8 gigs of ram in As soon as i remove my 2 2gig modules out of the second channel of my motherboard it will load and do everything fine if i do the reverse and remove the first channel but leave the second ones in i get the same result works A ok. Ive reloaded the OS with the 8 gigs in and have downloaded and installed all 64bit drivers for my board. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!:cry::cry: Specs Core2duo E4600 2.4ghz 4x 2 Gigs Apacer DDR2 800mhz MSI Radeon RX3870 512mb Intel "frostburg" socket 775 board Yes the board does support 8 gigs of memory and yes ive checked my ram timings in my bios -- prozac5000 |
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stumped with getting more than 8 gigs of ram to work with x64 Vista
I think you got it right. Many motherboards will not perform to spec with 4
ram modules. Go into the BIOS and look for ram settings. You can either manually specify a lower-than-default speed (e.g., set your 800MHZ ram to run at 667 MHz) or increase the voltage (only safe if your ram specs allow higher-than-default voltage). I run my 800 MHz ram at 667 MHz and have never had any stability problems since making the adjustment. I ran some memory subsystem benchmarks with ram at 800 MHz and at 667 MHz. On a 1333 MHz cpu bus, there was very little difference in memory performance. Apparently running synchronously (667 MHz is exactly half the 1333 MHz bus speed) offers an improvement that offsets the slower timing. "Curious" wrote in message ... prozak, Many users have had with 4 dims installed either because they could not run at the rated speed and the user had to slow down the memory in their BIOS. Or because the power load of the 4 dims was more then could be supported at the default memory voltage and the voltage had to be increased using the BIOS. Any of these user who tried new Dims such as 2 2GB dims in your case had no trouble or when using one of the workaround discussed above Regretfully I can not provide more details on these workarounds. Hopefully one of the MVPs or someone else more familiar with 4 dim problems will respond to this thread with specific solutions to your configuration. "Timothy Davis [MSFT]" wrote in message ... Have you checked for BIOS updates for your motherboard? What specific motherboard model is this? Try turning off quick boot/post in the BIOS - it will run a slightly more comprehensive memory check. Also, try running the Windows memory diagnostic: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp Finally, what do you mean by "...I cannot seem to get it to load..." - are we talking Vista here? Or the BIOS post screen? If you are talking Vista - F8 your way into Windows, and choose "enable boot logging". See if there is anything that takes an unusual amount of time. "prozac5000" wrote in message ... Sorry its meant to be 4 gigs of ram in subject Hi I recenetly purchased 64 bit vista ultimate and i am very frustrated I cannot seem to get it to load or work properly without it taking ages (literally 5 minutes if at all) with 8 gigs of ram in As soon as i remove my 2 2gig modules out of the second channel of my motherboard it will load and do everything fine if i do the reverse and remove the first channel but leave the second ones in i get the same result works A ok. Ive reloaded the OS with the 8 gigs in and have downloaded and installed all 64bit drivers for my board. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!:cry::cry: Specs Core2duo E4600 2.4ghz 4x 2 Gigs Apacer DDR2 800mhz MSI Radeon RX3870 512mb Intel "frostburg" socket 775 board Yes the board does support 8 gigs of memory and yes ive checked my ram timings in my bios -- prozac5000 |
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stumped with getting more than 8 gigs of ram to work with x64 Vista
hi reloaded my bios and everything working great thank goodness for intel and their downloadable bios .exe files -- prozac5000 |