So you can afford 128GB of ram, a motherboard that can support that, a processor that can address that… and you’re running a 2080ti?
It’s such an odd configuration I wouldn’t be surprised if the Nvidia driver were causing the issue. Contrary to the concept of a “unified driver,” the code for your GPU probably hasn’t been touched by nvidia in a while. Either that, or maybe you’ve got all that hardware, but you’re running Windows 8 or something else odd.
I am not going to troubleshoot this via Lemmy, but it does sound interesting. The fact that you specifically mention the combination of your GPU plus the 128GB of RAM still suggests to me that it’s a hardware or driver issue.
Windows has supported 128GB of RAM since Windows XP x64 Edition.
You seem to be confused. We’re talking about an “OS for the masses”. What you’re talking about is so far beyond the “high end for the top tier enthusiasts” that it’s not even funny.
It seems like a weird middle-ground that might be used in a weird 5 year old server. Probably not great for gaming. But I too had stability issues with all of my windows installations. (1.5 laptops, a prebuilt and later the machine I use now which I started using with windows) All of them had regular BSODs (though the laptops were a little older and might not always have been that way) and one pc even broke the Windows Bootloader so that I couldn’t boot it anymore.
Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.
No, they wouldn’t. I’ve seen so many posts on r/techsupport and r/windows from people complaining about Search or other OS functions not working. They always claimed that they “did nothing”, only afterwards it would turn out they used some of that crap software, which broke half the OS.
laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled
That could’ve been the reason for A LOT of problems too.
Let me put it this way: me, my family, and my business all run essentially clean Windows + Defender. Nothing else. And by “clean” I mean: install from ISO, leave as is.
Last time I had a BSOD was three years ago which was around 6 years since the previous one.
Meanwhile, the Tuxedo OS that I’m running right now (and, generally, enjoy very much) just hung up completely when I put it to sleep and then awoke. As in: not even the cursor moved when I moved the mouse, had to hard reset the thing. Things like that just don’t happen in the Windows world these days.
The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.
It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.
2080 ti and 128gb of ram - it is definitely not stable and unlike Linux isn’t ready out of the box
So you can afford 128GB of ram, a motherboard that can support that, a processor that can address that… and you’re running a 2080ti?
It’s such an odd configuration I wouldn’t be surprised if the Nvidia driver were causing the issue. Contrary to the concept of a “unified driver,” the code for your GPU probably hasn’t been touched by nvidia in a while. Either that, or maybe you’ve got all that hardware, but you’re running Windows 8 or something else odd.
W10/11
And yes the gpu needs an upgrade, but I don’t have a server in need of it yet so it stays in my personal computer
And on Linux it handles everything I need
I am not going to troubleshoot this via Lemmy, but it does sound interesting. The fact that you specifically mention the combination of your GPU plus the 128GB of RAM still suggests to me that it’s a hardware or driver issue.
Windows has supported 128GB of RAM since Windows XP x64 Edition.
You seem to be confused. We’re talking about an “OS for the masses”. What you’re talking about is so far beyond the “high end for the top tier enthusiasts” that it’s not even funny.
It seems like a weird middle-ground that might be used in a weird 5 year old server. Probably not great for gaming. But I too had stability issues with all of my windows installations. (1.5 laptops, a prebuilt and later the machine I use now which I started using with windows) All of them had regular BSODs (though the laptops were a little older and might not always have been that way) and one pc even broke the Windows Bootloader so that I couldn’t boot it anymore.
Out of curiosity - were you using any “debloaters” or other scripts/apps that were supposed to “fix” or “speed up” Windows?
Nope, I wasn’t really aware of such things, I bet they would have helped though. Now that I think about it the one laptop had a weird antivirus software preinstalled which caused quite a few problems too.
No, they wouldn’t. I’ve seen so many posts on r/techsupport and r/windows from people complaining about Search or other OS functions not working. They always claimed that they “did nothing”, only afterwards it would turn out they used some of that crap software, which broke half the OS.
That could’ve been the reason for A LOT of problems too.
Let me put it this way: me, my family, and my business all run essentially clean Windows + Defender. Nothing else. And by “clean” I mean: install from ISO, leave as is.
Last time I had a BSOD was three years ago which was around 6 years since the previous one.
Meanwhile, the Tuxedo OS that I’m running right now (and, generally, enjoy very much) just hung up completely when I put it to sleep and then awoke. As in: not even the cursor moved when I moved the mouse, had to hard reset the thing. Things like that just don’t happen in the Windows world these days.
The other computers were clean installs and still an update made one Windows installation unbootable and the other had sometimes daily BSODs which a computer repair store assured us was a RAM issue despite it working fine with the same configuration on Linux. After a few months the problem seemed to have fixed itself but I just switched to Linux on both machines.
It looks like we’re both cursed with weird issues just with the other OS. I have had 5 times that I’ve had kernel panics and of the ones that I needed to troubleshoot it was Nvidia drivers and a hardware failure.
If Windows doesn’t work on that, then it’s not for the masses
Sure, mate. 128 GB of RAM is clearly “for the masses”. :D
To quote the classic: “the best thing about Linux is the community. The worst thing about Linux is the community”.
Did you even read what I said?
If Windows needs more than 128gb of ram then it’s not for the masses because the masses have less than that
What are you trying to argue here, mate?
We’re talking about OSes for the average user. You said that Windows with 128 GB is “not stable and not ready out of the box, unlike Linux”.
Then you said “if it doesn’t work on that, then it’s not for the masses”.
So what exactly is your point?
You just said it
Are you OK, buddy?