So, I got up on one fine Saturday and decided to stack my PC with 4 Gigs of DDR2 RAM. I checked the prices for RAM at lamington road, and to my surprise, the price for the 1GB stick was around 1300 bucks! Of course, that was after a little bargain and deciding to take 2 sticks of 1 GB each... So here I was, heading back home, with 2 Gigs of DDR2 RAM, all sticks operating at a voltage of 1.8V+ and FSB of 800Mhz. I was just so happy of getting them! I was going to have a real fast PC (This was in addition to the already installed 2 Gigs of RAM)!
So I installed the sticks with an anticipation of a rocking speed to my PC and great boot times. All that was turned into a nightmare, when I noticed that my Windows Vista Ultimate is taking over a minute and a half to boot my installation! My earlier RAM, standing @ 2 GB was booting it much much faster! I tried frantically to do somethings to get the boot time up. The first thing that did strike me is my previous experience of Windows OS installations. Add a new hardware, and Windows sometimes tumbles down! That was my first guess. So my troubleshooting started with re-installing my OS. Interestingly, the installation too, was taking ages! I had to abort installation and install just 2 Gigs of RAM to get my new installation up and running... What do I do now? :-)
Well, this is how I troubleshooted... And am sure, this is something that will work for all those out there who own an Intel DG965RY OR (DG965XX series). My motherboard was at 1687 BIOS version. The following technet forum helped me solve my problem. I upgraded my BIOS to 1698, the release note clearly specifies that the fix in this release is to handle the slow boot issue when 4 Gigs of RAM is installed. Also, I installed one KB fix. Installing just the KB fix did not help me. Only after upgrading my BIOS to 1698 did the RAM's work for me :-)
The Technet Forum I am referring to:
http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/showpost.aspx?postid=1292561&siteid=17&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0
The Microsoft KB I am referring to: (KB929777)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777
In case you face such similar problems, feel free to drop in a line to me :-). I'll be more than glad to help you!!
4 comments:
Just so that you know, 4GB and Vista dont go hand in hand. There is no use having a 4 GB Ram with Vista, only memory upto 3GB is utilized. Google the reason :)
yeah thats true with the 32 bit windows. with the 64 bit version you can have 17 million gb..
i have the same problem with my gaming rig. i did a clean instal of win vista home premium 64 bit and added new ocz reaper 4gb RAM and it's f**kn slow. booting time from off to desktop :more than 11 mins! for a clean install! than in windows it's even worse when i move a window it's leaving stripes all over my desktop. internet exlporer crashes en is veeeery slow and crysis won't even run normaly on low with an fps of -70 i think. my system specs: asus p5w dh deluxe mobo, 2 3870x2's crossfire x :) 4 gb 800mhz ocz reaper mem, intel q6600 @ 2.4 ghz, 750 watt psu, 3 hdd's 2 1 terabyte and one 250 gb with my os. bios update doesn't worked.
hi, I just find this place, and I have two problems and I'm sure you can help my, I just buy two 2Gb ram cards and my PC don't even recognize them, only 2,6gb, I format my PC and install xp sp3, but still the same issue, a slower PC and only show 2,6gb ram, and now i install all the drivers, and have no sound, when i going to update my mobo bios the pc reboot itself, I have a MCI 9v mobo and atlhon 64 x2 +4200 processor, what should i do, please help me, and sorry for my english
when the pc reboot, show a message in a blue screen really fast, bud i can see someting about ntacces.sys,
and hope this can help.
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