Recent content by MyDogHasFleas

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    Massive slowdown with 4 GB memory

    actually I am not using a pci-e card at the moment, just using the builtin graphics chipset on the board.
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    Massive slowdown with 4 GB memory

    yep I'm all down with the voltages, timings, etc. the board/chipset is quite specific about this and I got memory that they've tested and said is compatible. I actually had an earlier pass at this machine where I had those issues and fixed them.
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    Massive slowdown with 4 GB memory

    my bad should have mentioned I am at the latest BIOS 1687 dated May 10 2007 thanks for the welcome I guess I am going to try memtesting each stick individually, can you think of anything else?
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    Massive slowdown with 4 GB memory

    I got an Intel DG665WH board with the 965 Express chipset. I got 4 1G sticks of Kingston memory off the Intel recommended list (DDR2-800). Using a 32-bit OS (Linux) I only see 3.3 GB memory, as expected. The memory map (Linux dmesg command) shows that the rest has been relocated above the 4GB...