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> If that happens you will never figure out why your application crashes, but if it happens enough, you will start looking for problems. Ironically, I had this
by snuxoll 9y ago
> If that happens you will never figure out why your application crashes, but if it happens enough, you will start looking for problems.
Ironically, I had this happen. In particular Overwatch would crash constantly on my gaming rig starting around June, I reinstalled Windows, reverted to Windows 7, tried various video driver revisions and NOTHING MADE SENSE.
Eventually started pulling parts out of my system, lo and behold a single 4GB stick of RAM was bad and causing all my grief. If I had ECC memory I would have known what the problem was right away, and replaced it without pulling my hair out first.
- jacquesm 9y agoIf you had had ECC you might not have noticed anything at all because your system worked just fine other than incrementing an error counter somewhere in the kernel. This depends to some extent on how many parts of that stick were affected. But best case the system would have simply recovered.