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COMPUTER SLOWER AFTER REPLACING MOTHERBOARD

I recently replaced the motherboard in my PC. I was running a Pentium D 915 @ 2.8Ghz, 2×1GB @ 667Mhz Single Channel RAM with an 8800GT 512mb on Win XP Home. The motherboard was a cheapy Abit SG-95 with 800Mhz FSB. I bought an Asus P5N-D not so long ago to find that one of my RAM sticks wont work in it, so I’m only running 1GB RAM, but the other components are the same. I notice the machine running SUBSTANTIALY slower! I know that there is only 1GB of ram, but I ran it in the past on only 1GB of ram on my old motherboard and remmeber it to be faster than it is now! I am thinking about buying a dual channel RAM kit as the board does have the dual channel capability. But will this really solve my problem? Is there likely to be something in the BIOS that i can change to make it run as fast as it did before with 1GB ram on my old motherboard? All replies will be greatly appreciated.

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COMPUTER SLOWER AFTER REPLACING MOTHERBOARD

I recently replaced the motherboard in my PC. I was running a Pentium D 915 @ 2.8Ghz, 2×1GB @ 667Mhz Single Channel RAM with an 8800GT 512mb on Win XP Home. The motherboard was a cheapy Abit SG-95 with 800Mhz FSB. I bought an Asus P5N-D not so long ago to find that one of my RAM sticks wont work in it, so I’m only running 1GB RAM, but the other components are the same. I notice the machine running SUBSTANTIALLY slower! I know that there is only 1GB of ram, but I ran it in the past on only 1GB of ram and remmeber it to be faster than it is now! I am thinking about buying a dual channel RAM kit as the board does have the dual channel capability. But will this really solve my problem? Is there likely to be something in the BIOS that i can change to make it run as fast as it did before? All replies will be greatly appreciated.

spiratec9 8 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (50 minutes after post)

it not the amount of ram.
The ram speed maybe a problem.
Make sure your new motherboard supports that type of ram.

Do control/alt/del and look at what things are running
it should show 99% of cpu being used by the idle process.
If its less say 60% then see what program is using up that cpu power.
try closing that program and check the speed.

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spiratec9 8 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (51 minutes after post)

its called “system idle process”

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4 months, 3 weeks ago (56 minutes after post)

spiratec9, in the motherboard instruction manual it says that it is compatible with 667 mhz i think up to 1066mhz aswell. when i turn on the computer, it says on the post screen that the ram is running at 667mhz (which it should be) and the cpu at 2.8ghz per core ( as it should be ). the system idle processes right now is at 95-98. i always try to make sure all un-necesary processes are not running. i notice things like games running slowly and ripping a cd with itunes very slow.

spiratec9 8 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 23 minutes after post)

well it should run o.k. You have me stumped.the 95-98 seems o.k.

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spiratec9 8 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 25 minutes after post)

try updating the mother board drivers.
If you are running Vista then good luck.
I don’t like that system.its very resource intensive.

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spiratec9 8 #
Burnaby, BC, CA | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 26 minutes after post)

for Vista you may need 2 gigs of ram to make it happy.
God bless us all.

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4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 hour, 52 minutes after post)

I know, it doesnt really add up does it? But good idea about the motherboard drivers, i will go look for them now. Thankyou for responding.

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4 months, 2 weeks ago (2 days, 3 hours after post)

Running xp. I know it’s not neccesarily how much ram I have but I am thinking maybe the ram and or CPU arnt propely compatible with te motherboard , though according to the instructions they are. But maybe they are too slow? The old mobo had an fsb of 800mhz and this new one is 1066mhz or something. Also I updated the bios to the latest version and updatd mobo drivers. I’m not sure If this makes. Difference or not. Another thing is the motherboard supports sata 3gb/s and my hard drive is 1.5gb/s though the old board was also 1.5gb/s transfer rate.

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4 months, 2 weeks ago (2 days, 16 hours after post)

Not really, most SATA hard drives nowadays can transfer 3gb/s with sata II

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