Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen?

Gerry Hull gerry at telosity.com
Tue Sep 29 15:45:22 EDT 2009


Thanks Bill

Make perfect sense!

He actually is switching to a Gigabyte motherboard...  and will fully
match RAM specs to BIOS config.

My buddy actually suggested a memory config issue to Asus support..
they said "Naw, i can't be that!"

It goes with my feeling about calling tech support in general!

Gerry

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> 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
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