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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Irony
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 12:50:53AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:

>
> "Mapping out" bad RAM isn't a good idea. See the documentation for
> memtest86. It's better to replace the bad RAM. In my case, my RAM went
> bad after a year, so I just took out one stick and now I have 48GB RAM
> instead of 64. Pretty soon this kind of RAM will be cheap enough to buy
> four sticks of *high quality* RAM.


memtest86 is still ueful when you're trying to find out which stick is failing.
Just pull then out in different combinations until the test stops failing.

-- hendrik