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You had a bad ram socket that silently corrupted data while you used ecc?
by temac 7y ago
You had a bad ram socket that silently corrupted data while you used ecc?
- tokamak-teapot 7y agoNo, it crashed the machine when I hit certain addresses. Or rather, when /something/ did. Hitting this part of RAM wasn’t predictable, so it was only when I considered that it seemed my crashes happened when the OS might be allocating more RAM than usual that I looked at RAM. I saw errors in memtest86 and blamed the RAM. But then the replacement had a similar problem. And then I switched modules around slots. And then I realised.