1:17 AM - Vista Bug
I bought 2 x 1 GB PC5300 chips for my desktop. The idea was to go to 4GB of ram. That would be an issue except I'm running 64bit vista (and midnightbsd). The system works fine in MidnightBSD, but with all the RAM in Vista freaks out. At first it seemed like it was Norton AV so I uninstalled it. However, that didn't solve the VERY SLOW perfrormance. It takes 22 minutes to get into the gui with services loaded! At 3GB of RAM it works. Before I had 2.5GB of RAM. 2 of the new chips and one of the old 1GB chips are in. My next test is 3.5GB total. The ram is now operating in Dual Channel mode and vista rates it slower. THere could be a memory timing difference between the RAM. The new stuff is kingston. The old stuff I bought at CompUSA before they closed.
Caryn's Mac tool her 4GB of extra ram without a problem. She was playing WoW in less than 30 minutes. My vista install is still screwed up after 5 hours. I've NEVER had this much trouble installing RAM. Since it seems to work with different chips, I don't think it's any one chip. It seems stable with 3GB so i'll deal with that for now. It's getting time for bed anyway.
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