Help with 64bit windows 7

[lofthouse1982]

Hi
please could someone help me with my computer, i am running Windows 7 64 bit with 6gb ram. i have 1 GB gts450 graphics card and my total memory is 9 GB but only 6 shows up on information page. my other problem is that my computer seems slow and is constantly crashing or not responding when closing windows or internet pages etc. i have updated my graphics card to 295.73 64 bit 7 driver from nvidia along with 15.57 n force motherboard drivers. these are update versions and cant see where i am going wrong. if my computer drivers are correct and fully updated it should run well. also my bios is updated. my specs are


Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel r core tm 2 duo cpu e4500 @2.20ghz 2.31ghz
installed memory Ram 6.00gb
system type 64 bit operating system

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name RICHARDIEMILIA
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz, 2310 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS P5N-E SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 1406, 18/11/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name RichardIEmilia\Richard I Emilia
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 6.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.93 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.89 GB
Page File Space 6.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

0xFE02C000-0xFE02CFFF NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller OK
0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OK
0xD8000000-0xE7FFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xD8000000-0xE7FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OK
0xCFF00000-0xFEBFFFFF PCI bus OK
0xFE02B000-0xFE02BFFF NVIDIA nForce 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet OK
0xFEFF0000-0xFEFF00FF System board OK
0xFEFF0000-0xFEFF00FF System board OK
0xFEFF0000-0xFEFF00FF High precision event timer OK
0xCFEF0000-0xCFEFFFFF System board OK
0xFFFF0000-0xFFFFFFFF System board OK
0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK
0xFEC00000-0xFEC00FFF System board OK
0xFEE00000-0xFEE00FFF System board OK
0xF0000000-0xF1FFFFFF Motherboard resources OK
0xFE024000-0xFE027FFF High Definition Audio Controller OK
0xFDD00000-0xFDDFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xFDC00000-0xFDCFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xFE02F000-0xFE02FFFF Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
0xFE02E000-0xFE02E0FF Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller OK
0xFBFFC000-0xFBFFFFFF High Definition Audio Controller OK
0xFDF00000-0xFDFFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xFDE00000-0xFDEFFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xE4000000-0xE5FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OK
0xFDFFF000-0xFDFFF7FF VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller OK
0xFE02D000-0xFE02DFFF NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller OK
0xFDDFE000-0xFDDFFFFF Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK
0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OK
0xC0000-0xDFFFF PCI bus OK
0xDA000-0xDBFFF System board OK
0xF0000-0xF7FFF System board OK
0xF8000-0xFBFFF System board OK
0xFC000-0xFFFFF System board OK
0x100000-0xCFEEFFFF System board OK



Name NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0DC4&SUBSYS_118419DA&REV_A1\4&6BB9499&0&0018
Adapter Type GeForce GTS 450, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Adapter RAM 1.00 GB (1,073,741,824 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version 8.17.12.9573
INF File oem4.inf (Section015 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1680 x 1050 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xD8000000-0xE7FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xE4000000-0xE5FFFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000BC00-0x0000BC7F
IRQ Channel IRQ 16
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (8.17.12.9573, 12.99 MB (13,624,128 bytes), 01/03/2012 15:58)



please could someone help and also i was told about updating drivers for my chip-set. not sure whats the best and how to do it. i checked on Intel website for 64 bit drivers but when installing it says its not compatible.

all the best Richard

 

[alvine]

if you are running a lot of ram the first thing I would suggest is to up the ram voltage a bit and see if that will give you the stability

 

[creativebluedot]

Hi there! Are you sure you have 9GB of physical RAM? Check if your RAM modules are properly seated on the motherboard. Have you checked the computer for malware,spyware or viruses? When was the last time you did a scandisk or a defrag?

 

[cTs Corvette]

According to this page http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5NE_SLI/#specifications your motherboard only supports a maximum of 8GB of RAM. the fact that it only shows 6 and it crashes all the time is an indication that you may have bad RAM or a bad RAM slot. Download a RAM test-memtest86 or Windows Memory Diagnostic, or the Ultimate Boot CD, and test your RAM individually. If you don't find any bad RAM, repeat the test in each RAM slot on the board and see if you find a bad slot.

 

[Dogsnake]

Windows is reporting the correct amount of RAM=6g. It reports only what is installed in the ram slots. It does not include video RAM in that amount shown. You might start by setting all bios values to default. Is the ram all the exact same brand and model number. What is the brand, size and model number of your RAM? You may have to set the timings in the bios manually. What size and brad is your power supply? What type of crashes are you getting BSOG, shut downs or what? Did the problems just start or have they been ongoing? If they started recently, what changes were made to the system? Have you run and virus scans? Please provide these answers so we can figure out what is going on.

 

[k1114]

He has 6 gb ram, look at his dxdiag he posted. He must have been confusing virtual memory. If you get a bsod it says what caused it.

 

[lofthouse1982]

Windows is reporting the correct amount of RAM=6g. It reports only what is installed in the ram slots. It does not include video RAM in that amount shown. You might start by setting all bios values to default. Is the ram all the exact same brand and model number. What is the brand, size and model number of your RAM? You may have to set the timings in the bios manually. What size and brad is your power supply? What type of crashes are you getting BSOG, shut downs or what? Did the problems just start or have they been ongoing? If they started recently, what changes were made to the system? Have you run and virus scans? Please provide these answers so we can figure out what is going on.

hi and thanks for quick reply, this morning i have formatted all hard drives (not quickly) and have avg running all the time, i have no reports of malware and i did a ram check and had no errors etc. i have also run defrag this morning after clean install of windows 7. will check ram now but i showed the guy in CCL what i had and needed so it should be all the same.

 

[lofthouse1982]

Hi all i have just run a windows memory diagnostics memory check and found no errors, my power supply is a


professional series
Fatality
550w gaming power supply

my memory in slots are
Patriot memory DDR2
2x1GB kit
2GB pc2 6400 4-4-4 x2

and

Corsair
cm2x2048-6400c5c
800 mhz, 2048 mb
55518
1.80v

x2

 

[lofthouse1982]

also i have no black or blue screen when it crashes. most of the time its software loading or from page to page not responding and then the courser just has a circle that goes round as if its loading..

 

[lofthouse1982]

Windows is reporting the correct amount of RAM=6g. It reports only what is installed in the ram slots. It does not include video RAM in that amount shown. You might start by setting all bios values to default. Is the ram all the exact same brand and model number. What is the brand, size and model number of your RAM? You may have to set the timings in the bios manually. What size and brad is your power supply? What type of crashes are you getting BSOG, shut downs or what? Did the problems just start or have they been ongoing? If they started recently, what changes were made to the system? Have you run and virus scans? Please provide these answers so we can figure out what is going on.

hi and thanks for the advice, i have managed to stop the crashing and freezing between closing screens etc but my computer still seems slower compared to when i had xp on.

 

[Dogsnake]

Yes that sounds about right. Win 7 will slow down some apparent actions on your PC. Take a look at this and try a few of the suggestions (http://www.computingunleashed.com/speed-up-windows-7-ultimate-guide-to.html). Changing the visual settings will help a lot; shutting of indexing also will give you a speed boost. As you know your system hardware is a few generations old. It will run Win7 with no problems but you will have better performance if you do not use some of the eye candy and "features" built into win7.