I hate RAM

[kengr]

Been having (probably) memory problems with this box for some time.

I'd thought I'd identified which of the four 1 gig DIMMs was the problem. But apparently not.

So for the last week or so, I'd been trying something more systematic. I'd pulled a DIMM, and when the system blue screened again, I took out the DIMM in slot one and put the one that'd been out in slot 1.

Basic idea was that if just one DIMM had problems, then if I got a BSOD while thart one was it, it wasn't the problem. After the next crash, I pulled the one in slot 2, and replaced it with the one that'd been out.

Unfortunately, as of yesterday, I'd had BSODs with each of the 4 DIMMs not presemnt.

Which means that either it wasn't the RAM, or it's *two* of them that are bad. *sigh*.

So I'm going after it differently. I'm running the box with only *one* DIMM in it (which is moderately painful).

If there aren't any BSODs in a few days (I may go a whole week if I can stand the slowness of the system), then I'll swap in a different DIMM and try again for the same period.

Hopefully this will isolate the bad DIMMs.

Then I get to go to Free Geek and buy replacements (used, since nobody sells the appropriate DIMMs new anymore).

Bleah.

Comments

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

You sure it's not the memory slot itself? Maybe the DIMMs are fine but the slot is going kerput?

[kengr]

Well, given that it's shown up at significantly different addresses, I don't think that's it.

Also, please stop thinking such things. If that's the case I'd need to replace the motherboard... Aiiiiieeeee!