mrgiggle said:
I have the Intel DG33LT board, Q6700 cpu, and 4gigs 667 ram. the problem
I've had for the past week was a very slow boot(3-4 min), after many
websites and unfruitful calls, I ran across a problem with Vista
Ultimate64 running more than 3gigs of ram, once I took out one of the
one gig sticks of ram, my boot time went down to 45-55 seconds.
I have all intel and windows updates, and the only other installed
program I have is Norton Internet Security 2008.
If you had a 4gig problem and over came it, please let me know, and
thank you for your help in advance!
You seem to be saying this only started a week ago and that previously
the configuration was working okay.
What changed in the last week?
Any new intel stuff? It is not unknown for a BIOS or driver update to
fix one problem (as intended by the manufacturer) but cause or revive
another problem, Asus used to be good at this trick
It is also possible that some Norton update turned on a function that
wasn't happening before, although I'd guess that any kind of extra
"Scanning" (say in memory for viruses) would have a proportionate
effect, ie take out another stick and maybe it gets faster still.
I'd try swapping around as Frank suggests and maybe put the stick you
removed in the first slot and try that alone, and shut down - restart a
couple of times at each step instead of just reboot in case temperature
has a bearing on the problem. Bad RAM can be difficult to diagnose since
the problem may not be the RAM per se but a "Timing" error between sticks.
I had a very similar problem and it was totally unexpected since all
hardware right out the maker's boxes, and swapping would not have found
it but removing a stick at a time did.