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Failing RAM? In this economy?
Now to go beg to the RMA gods
You can edit the grub config (assuming you're using Linux) and add reserved ranges for the affected physical address.
find the linux boot command and add a memmap=$ argument This tells the kernel to avoid the bad parts.
In your case it looks like a relatively small chunk of bad memory so.. memmap=64K$0x130FE0000
I've used this trick to stabilise systems with faulty RAM and it works.
Seems like its always the same core that is creating the error. Could be a bad overclock. Try reseting the bios to default. Also try reseating the RAM (and clean out the slots with compressed air) and rerunning the test. I've had similar issues in the past that were fixed by this.
Once stable overclocks can fail after many years as it slowly wears out some transistors.
Not good. The pattern is not consistent.
Take the RAM out and carefully clean the contacts with e.g. alcohol and a piece of lint-free cloth.
They're very few addresses, you can tell the OS not to use them. Take a look at this: https://www.memtest86.com/blacklist-ram-badram-badmemorylist.html
It didn't even occur to me it could be done, makes sense.
Dawg you're the GOAT with that link
Try blowing on it and inserting again
This does actually help, if you still have bad sections you can reserve them in GRUB or Badblocks(?) on windows iirc
I mean not actually blowing on the ram but taking it out, cleaning contacts with isopropyl and reseating it has fix memory errors for me in the past.
It worked the other day on my servers ecc ram. The greatest tech support trick of all time after ‘have you tried turning it off and on again’
This usually makes me start working.
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F. Godspeed.
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Check the used market first
If it's still under warranty, why wouldn't you try to RMA it first?
If it's still under warranty, why wouldn't you try to RMA it first?
You can try... but several manufacturers are opting to refund you what you paid for the product, instead of replacing it, per their warranty terms. Terms that never were an issue before. And obviously what you paid years ago won't get you anywhere near a similar product now.
But OP would still get something.
worth asking anyway... but if they demand the pair back and only offer a refund, you're losing money over keeping a single stick probably.
Just buy a bunch of NAND gates and make your own registers
I prefer to do the old fashioned way like granny taught me, by weaving my own damn memory.
Memory-safe by default!
Sure, you can do that....if you're a casual. Real PC users build their own NAND gates out of MOSFETs.
Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my relays
Relays are for kids and cowards who are too soft to use mercury delay-line memory
Oh, the relays are just a side project that I'm toying with. My daily driver is a hamster-wheel-powered marble-run abacus running floating point arithmetic
I'm making my own GPU at the moment, it can run for sure a potato. lol /j for anyone who didnt understand
Report back with crysis benchmark
Remove the sticks, blow out your sockets with some compressed air and re-test. I had something similar recently and a full memtest pass ran clean after that.
Also, disable any OC. I had my ram fail tests because it is not supported by my mobo. After reducing speed to factory stock it would pass flawlessly.
Its not a nintendo
you'd be surprised. it's not even a about dust. chip creep is still a thing in modern ddr and pcie slots, and can absolutely show up as a bad part. I've saved a few gpus and ram sticks from being declared dead after a bad test by just cleaning contacts and reinstalling.
Time to go back to weaving memory
The software for the AGC was written by programmers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Instrumentation Lab, and was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories.[2] Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory.[3]
LOL Memory indeed
They want RAM, not ROM ;)
Don’t know what brand you’ve got but I had two 16GB sticks of G.Skill DDR4 go bad a few months back and their RMA process worked a treat.
Wishing you success as well.
GSkill yep. Should be good. I originally built in 2020 with 2x8gb and then in October 2024 I got another 2x8gb because it was only $35USD why not lol
The exact same set is currently $135...
And go figure the new sticks were the ones that failed.
Dang, i'm a bit worried for my own RAM as well. I keep getting random reboots on my pc every now and then. I initially suspected my distro to be the problem since it started happening after i hopped, but after feeling like i checked everything on the software side, i'm checking hardware now just to be safe anyway. Started with removing the OC from my RAM. I also have my 5800X3D undervolted though since i saw it recommended at the time. Now that it's a few years old i might just not be stable anymore at that voltage.
I've got two 16GB sticks that I bought in 2020 pullin me through—I'm praying they last long enough til prices go back down haha
