Now I need to take a loan in order to afford 32gb for replacement thanks to the ai bros hoarding all the chips…
Tried on three different PCs, both Intel and AMD, both sticks are damaged, somehow
I have two sticks of RAM worth $850 now that went bad but I was able to successfully RMA them - can you do that?
At least its DDR4?
Im grasping.
Bro I’ve had my ram for yeaaaars. Anytime my computer glitches I just think “yep it’s time” and my wallet sheds a tear
Nightmare scenario. My condolences
RIP OP’s Kidney
On Linux you can mask out bad memory ranges. Don’t know about Windows.
That’s neat, I’ll definitely have a look about the topic.
Sounds dumb but check craigslist
I’m eying FB Marketplace lately, not all users are aware of the RAM situation.
Someone else may have said this but try reseating the memory, making sure there isn’t dust or anything in the slots
Does the BIOS support any overclocking/tweaking?
I’m not familliar with Rocket Lake (your CPU generation), but you may be able to bump the voltage or loosen the timings a bit to get it stable. Even without BIOS support, it’s possible you could do this from your operating system, like you can with Ryzen.
Might be cheaper to buy a pre built laptop at this point…
Is this a laptop ? Are you in the EU ? Is 2x8 Gb enough for your needs ?
No it’s some kind of hybrid bastard mobo from AliExpress where they use a soldered mobile CPU but with desktop memory in microATX form factor
What kind of RAM? DDR4? I can sell you old G Skill DDR4.
I have an old team force ddr4 16gb kitm not exactly top of the line but should do the trick. I’ll gladly sell it to you for a much fairer price than what’s around these days long as you’re in the us. dm me if interested, no worries if not
Ah too bad, I’d have sold you the RAM at a great discount (~50€)
Well luckily you’re on the right generation of Intel that allows you to use DDR4. It’ll probably be cheaper to buy a new motherboard than it would be to buy DDR5
If I may ask: how?
(background: always owned multiple pc / built frequently / never had one stick of bad ram over decades. Was it just luck or better vendor or good handling)
I wonder also. I’m guessing maybe a bad lot?
The story starts two years ago when I bought them in a kit with 4 16gb sticks from micron. When installed all four the motherboard, I installed Linux and it crashed (froze) when running a VM with KVM. Tested with memtestx86 and it will always fail at the 5th test (after around 20 mins of crunching) and at reboot the bios would reset to default. Because it was an AMD Ryzen and all the web results said so, I assumed it was some kind of incompatibility and removed two sticks. With two sticks, it passed the test. I swapped the two sticks and it passed the test again. So I left those 2 16gb sticks in the Ryzen and used the other 2 16gb sticks with the Intel. Both passed the test.
Fast forward 18 months, in the Intel I’m copying a file from the nvme to the HDD and it tells me
Input/output error.I start diagnosing the btfrs filesystem, find corruption in the counter, scrub finds uncorrectable errors in the virtio-win.iso file, the one I wanted to move. I assumed it was some btrfs bug, deleted the file as I could download it again, moved on. After a few weeks a flatpak app wouldn’t start. Read the dmesg, see a btrfs message about some corrupted inode or something like that. I use find to find the file at that inode, it was the flatpak. Again assumed it was a btrfs bug, reinstalled the flatpak and moved on.
Then yesterday the system froze. This time I tested with memtestx86. It failed immediately within seconds. Took out one stick, swapped them, no change. I went back and swap them with the other two sticks bought in the same lot, those would pass the test.
Hm, sounds like it. Micron is certainly reputable, and the issues hints at memory, although I’ve had similar that turned out not to be ram. Certainly very weird!
On another note, I personally do absolutely not trust btrfs due to its creator and very long time shaky lossy raid issues. Since there are enough performant and proven long time reliable filesystems available I use others.
Anyhow, getting to the point - I’d not entirely rule out something with btrfs as a separate issue too. I’ve just seen too many things that your ram issues could’ve been a few freak issues resulting in this.
Although I fully agree in your deduction!
Looks like most of the nibbles are fine. Maybe something happened to the connectors or traces. At least you know it’s the ram not your motherboard.
at least? wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the motherboard nowadays?
Idk I just bought a 32GB stick of ddr4 sodimm for $60, adapters are less than $10 each so maybe not if you stay away from scalpers and don’t pay attention to ram speed 😅
I was also thinking the soldered CPU motherboard with 8 cores must cost at least 200 but maybe that’s a bad assumption and I didn’t look it up.
