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Very low on detail, no analysis what caused this. I've never had issues with ram upgrades. Ram either works fine, or it reports errors in memtest (or reports er

by sigio 11y ago

Very low on detail, no analysis what caused this. I've never had issues with ram upgrades. Ram either works fine, or it reports errors in memtest (or reports errors under high load). Chance of ram issues causing other hardware failure... ZERO

leppie 11y ago
Agreed. Odds probably the RAM was mismatched, and the BIOS did not choose conservative settings. Also could be voltage mismatch, and then your low voltage modules could fry (unlikely though).
Laforet 11y ago
Once upon a time I bought a new laptop and all's well. Several months later, however, it developed a problem: Within 10 minutes of connecting to the internet using the onboard modem (this was really a while ago) the OS will crash after ~10 minutes of normal operation. Various software patches and driver updates were promptly applied but to no avail, once connected no matter what actions you take it will consistently throw a BSoD without any hint of trouble after a few minutes. Considering the fact that the system was 100% stable offline it seemed fair to conclude that the modem was faulty. Except that when I procured an external modem it reproduced the exact same issue. A lot of time was wasted trying to figure out what happened. Several fruitless rounds of OS reinstalls later I started to swap test any removable component out of desperation (there really wasn't many on a laptop) and voila the problem went away once a particular stick of RAM had been removed. Later tests found that it will pass most tests in MemTest86+ except this a copy operation over repeated runs. I have no idea why the symptoms were so peculiar, perhaps when using dial-up connections the OS had been repeatedly loading the network stack in the memory address close to the affected blocks and after a while it will inevitably encounter a IO error and crash. This is just one personal anecdote, but with a complex system it is certainly possible for RAM issues to appear like other kinds of failure.

by sigio 11y ago

leppie 11y ago

Agreed. Odds probably the RAM was mismatched, and the BIOS did not choose conservative settings. Also could be voltage mismatch, and then your low voltage modules could fry (unlikely though).

Laforet 11y ago

Once upon a time I bought a new laptop and all's well. Several months later, however, it developed a problem: Within 10 minutes of connecting to the internet using the onboard modem (this was really a while ago) the OS will crash after ~10 minutes of normal operation. Various software patches and driver updates were promptly applied but to no avail, once connected no matter what actions you take it will consistently throw a BSoD without any hint of trouble after a few minutes. Considering the fact that the system was 100% stable offline it seemed fair to conclude that the modem was faulty. Except that when I procured an external modem it reproduced the exact same issue. A lot of time was wasted trying to figure out what happened. Several fruitless rounds of OS reinstalls later I started to swap test any removable component out of desperation (there really wasn't many on a laptop) and voila the problem went away once a particular stick of RAM had been removed. Later tests found that it will pass most tests in MemTest86+ except this a copy operation over repeated runs. I have no idea why the symptoms were so peculiar, perhaps when using dial-up connections the OS had been repeatedly loading the network stack in the memory address close to the affected blocks and after a while it will inevitably encounter a IO error and crash. This is just one personal anecdote, but with a complex system it is certainly possible for RAM issues to appear like other kinds of failure.