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18 days agodoubt that there are a lot of systems with damaged memory floating around.
Let’s say that you would be surprised if we actually started checking this. I will not disclose my occupation but there are thousands of critical telco infrastructure pieces of equipment that run not only a non-ECC ram because of cost cutting, but with actually broken DRAM modules, regularly rebooting at least a few times a day and causing local outages…
Back to the topic at hand - doesn’t it seem strange that only CPU4 finds issues in memtest86? It could be a CPU or even motherboard that got damaged and not the DRAM itself, no?
Exactly my thoughts. Take your RAM and test it with another CPU + MoBo combo. Ask friends. I bet the RAM is good.