DG35EC Windows 7 Slow When Using 8gb of Ram

[Steve369]

Hello.

I installed Windows 64 with 4gb of ram and everything works fine, but when I tried to install 4 more gb of ram the system boots very slow or hangs. The bios is updated and the 8gb appears to be working fine in the bios. Something else I notice is that if I boot in the "SAFEMODE" the system will hang at 'CLASSPNP.SYS" Nevertheless when I remove the extra Ram all these symptoms will go away. Additionally I have tried switching the ram to make sure I didn't have any bad ram chips, but it doesn't matter which set of ram chips I use as long as I don't go over 4 gb.

I have checked around and several including Microsoft insist that I need to go into the BIOS and enable the "memory remapping" feature, but I can't find this setting anywhere in the BIOS.

In summary

DG35EC will work great with 4 gigs, but if I add another 4 gb the system runs very slow. I do want to note that I do have two different brands: 4gb 6400 Samsong + 4gb 6400 Hynix.

Steve

 

[Sardonicus]

Is the RAM timing and other specs the same?

 

[andres770105]

I had the same problem. The 0118 version of the BIOS is the cause of this error. Update the BIOS to version 0116 and problem solved! Here is the link of the BIOS driver (0116 version):

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/con...G3510M.86A.0116.EB.EXE&lang=eng&Dwnldid=17850

I hope this help.

 

[chuckgcs]

I had the same issue. After increasing the RAM from 4gb to 8gb, Win7 64bit slowed way down, both in startup time and functionality. This is a multi-boot system and interestingly the Win7 32bit did not slow down when the additional RAM. The BIOS downgrade/update to 0116 fixed my identical issue. I had actually gone from 0117 to 0118 attempting to address the slowdown, but the 0116 was the fix. With the 8gb RAM and the BIOS at 0116 Win7 64bit now boots to the desktop in 40 seconds - the same as it did with 4gb of RAM; when I had increased the RAM from 4gb to 8gb it had jumped to taking over 3 minutes to get to the desktop when the BIOS was at 0117 and 0118.