WHS DG965WH Sluggish Disk

Inglix_the_Mad

Inglix_the_Mad

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Okay I have rebuilt my wife's machine with my old quad core, so I decided t build a new WHS using the parts from her working machine. This machine was nice and snappy, but with WHS on it, it runs pathetically slow. I test installed a WHS on my old K8V-SE Deluxe w/ A64-3200 and it was pretty snappy. Any ideas here?

DG965WH
C2D E6300
4GB RAM (overkill, yeah, but it's what was in her machine)
2x250GB Seagate SATA
2x1TB Seagate SATA
1 DVD-ROM and 1 DVD-RW
1 FDD
650W BFG PS

I've tried with and without RAID, legacy, AHCI modes. I've tried loading from both opticals, using 2003 drivers where possible but the damn thing is slower than molasses. Any ideas?
 
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Wow, on paper you should have a blazing WHS, I have a much less powerful system and it runs ok. I will point out, when WHS is first started it takes a while for it to become useable ( um, 2-3 minutes? never really timed it) because it does all its connecting to the network, finding the other pc's etc. Also, I have notice on mine, if I use the console form another PC its a lot smoother than trying to use the console on the WHS machine. I would suggest installing it on one drive and cutting everything to the basics ( once installed remove opticals, extra HD, etc. ) then try it. If that doesnt work, I am lost ;(
 
jay2472000 said:
Wow, on paper you should have a blazing WHS, I have a much less powerful system and it runs ok. I will point out, when WHS is first started it takes a while for it to become useable ( um, 2-3 minutes? never really timed it) because it does all its connecting to the network, finding the other pc's etc. Also, I have notice on mine, if I use the console form another PC its a lot smoother than trying to use the console on the WHS machine. I would suggest installing it on one drive and cutting everything to the basics ( once installed remove opticals, extra HD, etc. ) then try it. If that doesnt work, I am lost ;(
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Yeah, and I removed 2GB of RAM 30 min ago and now it works great. No lag at ALL. I guess it is x86 and not x64 but really, it should behave better than that. Intel cert mem, same lot (and speed of course)

Yeesh
 
Did you always have 4Gb of ram on that 965 board? On the Intel 965 boards there was a couple bios versions where having 4Gb of ram made the machine impossibly slow, like 20 minutes to boot up slow. Bios update fixed it, maybe something like this is going on with this machine?
 
Abit667 said:
Did you always have 4Gb of ram on that 965 board? On the Intel 965 boards there was a couple bios versions where having 4Gb of ram made the machine impossibly slow, like 20 minutes to boot up slow. Bios update fixed it, maybe something like this is going on with this machine?
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Yes. I took it when I built my wife's machine. The only change was the removal of the video card.
 
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