On 09/29/2009 02:14 PM, Gerry Hull wrote: > I have a friend who just went through a nightmare trying to get his > i7-860 running Windows 7/64 or Windows Vista/64 on a Asus > motherboard... Thing would lock-up randomly, and tech support was no > help.
On my ASUS I had to set the motherboard memory configuration manually. Using Kingston Hyper-X RAM, the automatic settings the BIOS set were 5-5-5-18 at 800MHz at 1.8V. The datasheet for the RAM said it could do 5-5-5-15 at 1066MHz and 2.2V. So, I set the BIOS to the memory manufacturer's spec, and all my random problems went away. That took me about 30 hours to figure out... my guess is vanilla Windows doesn't push the RAM controller as hard as Linux does. Vista got a new memory allocator, so maybe it's caught up? I thought SPD made this process obsolete 15 years ago... -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
