Hendrik Boom said on Wed, 8 Nov 2023 20:08:27 -0500

>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.

EX-actly!


SteveT

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