I wanted a spooky spooky season but not like this
48 gb you naughty dog
It’s not as bad as you think. If you read it carefully you’ll see that you can press any key to make the banner go away. I’m so glad I could help 🤗
Life saver, thank you 🙏
Can’t you just add a kernel parameter to not use specific memory addresses?
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OK, this could be a meme I am out of the loop for.This is a run if memtest, yeah? The huge letters are/were not a thing. My back hurts and the nurse said I could get an extra serving of pudding today.
I guess it just hit me. I have been away from Wondows for so long that I’m not even understanding memes anymore. I haven’t seen a blue screen in maybe 20 years. (yes, I understand this is BIOS)
This is an instance of Memtest86+, which is different from the original memtest. It’s booted from a ventoy flash drive in memboot mode. The big letters are real.
It says PASS when it’s done some passes that were all successful.
It says FAIL when it has one error. It rattles off bad block addresses if you dismiss the FAIL and let it continue
Thanks. It has been a long time.
I feel like memory might have gotten more reliable in the last 25 years. This is the first time I had to memtest something in over a decade. Back in the day, I used to test heaps of rigs and find bad memory occasionally. And I’ve never had a memory failure on my personal hardware until now.
I’ve killed DDR3 before by touching it while it was running. Not the smartest move, but yeah.
A small bright side, at least they are DDR4 not DDR5 or you’d be even more screwed!
I’m so sorry this happened to you.
Such is life 🗿
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Oh no friend, do you have a gofundme?
No that’s OK I’m just going to sell the box for scrap metal and go live in the woods.
Tbf this is all kinds of fucky. 3x ddr4 is not a good start. Severly under clocked. The cas timings look very tight to me
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Excellent argument for having a large number of small RAM sticks, rather than just one or two big ones… If one fails, it’s less of a loss that way.
Redundant Array of Incredibly expensive DRAM
My servers have this option, either as a mirror or with hotspares. Seems expensive.
That’s an expensive fail
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If I win the lotto I got you man, so sorry to hear. That is absolutely awful :(
47.8GB?
4 x 16GB but one of them is fully cooked and isn’t even recognised (leaving 48GB) another module is failing with errors.
They are also specced at 3200mhz but running at 1066 currently 🤷
I was going to suggest trying them at a lower clock but seems like you might be out of luck.
It is pretty rare to see multiple fails like this, do a search for your ram, mobo, chipset CPU and bios and see if anything flags. Might even be worth messing with latency settings, XMP can do stupid things.
Anyone already running memtest probably knows enough to check stuff but just in case.
Assuming it’s a reputable brand it’s probably worth attempting an RMA, it usually has pretty long warranty.
Yeah, the time of death is a few years ago, they were cooked for a while…
Have you tried testing one module at a time at the original 3200?
