I believe I read something earlier about this being related to the nVidia
chipset. See if there are updated drivers from the Asus site.



"Philip Fuchslocher" <PhilipFuchslocher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:31F09E6C-5504-4238-A1A7-03589C088381@microsoft.com...
> Thanks, I will take a look for his postings.
>
> I just made the memory test, without any negativ results. all ram is
> working
> fine.
>
> philip
>
> "MICHAEL" wrote:
>
>> I believe Colin Barnhorst had a similar problem with
>> the 64bit version of Vista. I believe it was a motherboard
>> problem. Perhaps, he will elaborate.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>> "Philip Fuchslocher" <Philip Fuchslocher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in message
>> news:AC2784E2-E769-4A27-B209-274D6E08252B@microsoft.com...
>> > Yesterday I received my Vista Ultimate.
>> > The installation was horrifying, the speed of the system unbelievable
>> > bad.
>> > (boot: 10 minutes, unzipping a 10MB file: 25 minutes, opening a window:
>> > up to
>> > 10 seconds. the performance index (don't know if thats the right
>> > english word
>> > for it) was 1,2)
>> >
>> > After many tests und frustrating re-installations of win I figured out,
>> > that
>> > the RAM caused this problem. Removing 2GB of the installed 4 made the
>> > system
>> > running how it should rund. The Index climbed up to 4,3.
>> >
>> > Now my question is: how can I use all my memory? the way it works at
>> > the
>> > moment is no real satisfaction.
>> >
>> > some info about my system:
>> >
>> > - Windows Vista Ultimate, 64Bit
>> > - CPU: Intel Core2Duo 6600 (2,4Ghz)
>> > - RAM: 4GB (4x1) G.E.I.L. PC5300, CL 3-4-4-8
>> > - Mainboard: Asus P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe (nForce4 intel 16x)
>> > - HD: 3x Samsung 400GB, Raid0 (Raid 5 doesn't work at all, terrible
>> > speed,
>> > propably the nforce driver)
>> > - Grafics: Asus EN7950GX2 (1GB memory)
>> >
>> > I wonder if the problem is all about the beta nvidia nForce driver or
>> > if
>> > this problem might be a bug of windows itself.
>> >
>> > thanks for your help,
>> > philip
>>
>>