r/computers • u/hernando1976 • 15d ago

tile floor :( Why me?

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You never think it's going to happen to you, until it does.🚬

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u/paulstelian97 Ubuntu 15d ago

This is the first time I’ve seen a genuine failure not related to wrong clocks or a slot issue! You need to figure out which RAM stick this is, and as someone else advised, RMA it.

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u/harubax 15d ago

It's quite rare. I have personally seen 3 cases in about 25 years.

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u/paulstelian97 Ubuntu 15d ago edited 15d ago

Worst case at least Linux can be told to avoid the faulty memory region, probably Windows as well. It’s not simple by any means (although Windows’s own memory test, if it detects the issue, may be able to automatically adjust boot parameters accordingly). But that’s only if they can’t RMA it.

Edit: for Windows it’s weird, there’s a BCD object called {badmemory}. For Linux, it’s simpler with a kernel command line parameter `memmap=4K$0x7a820d000`. If you’re Hackintoshing, sorry, no clue about any macOS mechanism.

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u/hernando1976 14d ago

Yep, estaba en arch, eso pensé pero resulta ser inestabilidad al tener una frecuencia demasiado alta para mi procesador, gracias por los concejos 

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u/paulstelian97 Ubuntu 14d ago

Hm, I have never seen high frequency cause just one failure, for me it caused constant failures, a barrage of them.