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System Name | AMD Black Dragon |
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Processor | AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition |
Motherboard | Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P |
Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212+ |
Memory | 4GB OCZ PC2-6400 Platinum (2x2GB) |
Video Card(s) | ATi Radeon HD4870 512MB GDDR5 w AC Twin Turbo |
Storage | Crucial C300 64GB SSD, 500GB and 2TB Drives |
Display(s) | Samsung 2494hm, Dell (Samsung?) 1907FP |
Case | Lancool (Lian-Li on a budget) K7 |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard Realtek ALC889A, M-Audio Fast Tracks |
Power Supply | OCZ Mod-X-Stream Pro 600W |
Software | Windows 7 Home Premium x64, XP Pro |
Okay I've built a system here with a Gigabyte Z68A-D3H-B3 rev 1.3 with the latest BIOS, Core i7 2700K, Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5, 128GB Crucial M4 SSD and 32GB of G.Skill DDR3 1600MHz RAM.
Windows 7 x64 Professional is loaded on the SSD. Windows 7 boots up lightning fast with 16GB installed but when I load in all 32GB it takes literally 5 minutes to load into Windows 7. This is at the loading screen where the 4 colors come together to form the Windows logo.
So it's a RAM issues right? Well here's the kicker.
It doesn't always take 5 minutes. Apx 1 out of every 3 or 4 bootups it will load in apx a minute or less. It's about 5 seconds longer than with 16GB but still acceptable and from what I can see Windows is pre-loading more into RAM on startup (2GB with 32GB, 1.25GB with 16GB) so the 5 seconds seems acceptable. But most of the time it takes 5 minutes and that is not!
I ran Memtest86+ overnight with not a single error. This is at the profiled 1,600MHz, 10.10.10 timings and 1.5v as stated on the sticks. I've also tried manually setting the speeds, timings and voltages. I've tried 1,333 (the mobo also defaults to 1,333 if XMP profile is disabled) and I tried upping the voltage. But like I said it passed memtest86+ running all night so I don't think it's a memory issue as much as a Windows issue.
Also when it does take 5 minutes to load up I should mention it's perfectly fast and stable once it does load in. It just seems to hang up on something while loading up Windows.
Like I said the board has the latest BIOS and I can't really try different RAM since I don't have 4x 8GB sticks lying around
Any tips would be great. I did search the issue and everyone else suggested it is a memory issue and suggested manually setting the clock speed, timings and voltage and like I said I did try that and it passed memtest86+ overnight on XMP profile so I don't believe it is a memory issue. Are there any other known software issues with Windows or Drivers and 32GB RAM?
PS it's not my PC it's a customer build. a customer who will never use or need 32GB of RAM but insisted on having it.... yeah. If it was mine I would just stick with 16GB as that would still be more than enough for me and it wouldn't be giving me any issues hahaha.
Thanks in advance guys
Windows 7 x64 Professional is loaded on the SSD. Windows 7 boots up lightning fast with 16GB installed but when I load in all 32GB it takes literally 5 minutes to load into Windows 7. This is at the loading screen where the 4 colors come together to form the Windows logo.
So it's a RAM issues right? Well here's the kicker.
It doesn't always take 5 minutes. Apx 1 out of every 3 or 4 bootups it will load in apx a minute or less. It's about 5 seconds longer than with 16GB but still acceptable and from what I can see Windows is pre-loading more into RAM on startup (2GB with 32GB, 1.25GB with 16GB) so the 5 seconds seems acceptable. But most of the time it takes 5 minutes and that is not!
I ran Memtest86+ overnight with not a single error. This is at the profiled 1,600MHz, 10.10.10 timings and 1.5v as stated on the sticks. I've also tried manually setting the speeds, timings and voltages. I've tried 1,333 (the mobo also defaults to 1,333 if XMP profile is disabled) and I tried upping the voltage. But like I said it passed memtest86+ running all night so I don't think it's a memory issue as much as a Windows issue.
Also when it does take 5 minutes to load up I should mention it's perfectly fast and stable once it does load in. It just seems to hang up on something while loading up Windows.
Like I said the board has the latest BIOS and I can't really try different RAM since I don't have 4x 8GB sticks lying around
Any tips would be great. I did search the issue and everyone else suggested it is a memory issue and suggested manually setting the clock speed, timings and voltage and like I said I did try that and it passed memtest86+ overnight on XMP profile so I don't believe it is a memory issue. Are there any other known software issues with Windows or Drivers and 32GB RAM?
PS it's not my PC it's a customer build. a customer who will never use or need 32GB of RAM but insisted on having it.... yeah. If it was mine I would just stick with 16GB as that would still be more than enough for me and it wouldn't be giving me any issues hahaha.
Thanks in advance guys