Intel motherboard BOXD915GAVL very slow with centos 4

[greg.knaddison at gmail.com (Greg Knaddison)]

On 4/27/05, j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Jerry Geis wrote:
> 
> > I am installing a BOXD915GAVL system and centos 4.
> > The CPU is a 2.8 GIG celeron D with 1GIG memory and 120GIG Seagate drive.
> >
> > Is is VERY slow. What gives?
> 
> I've got an 815, and a 915 at home, and they both work fine.  I'm really
> not sure about this one.
> 

I've had this problem with bad RAM/not properly seated RAM.  I had
setup swap, so linux was booting with everything immediately going to
swap.  Can you confirm that your system is actually using RAM?

Greg