Personal computing discussed
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LostCat wrote:Have you tried Windows Memory Diagnostic?
Have you ruled out a disk drive going bad?
just brew it! wrote:Ugh... hate problems like this. I'm gonna go with RAM, but that's just a wild-ass guess. Multiple sticks? If so, try removing sticks one by one to see if it stabilizes.
I assume you've already done scans with multiple malware detection/removal tools?
derFunkenstein wrote:Can PSUs fail in a way where at low loads they freak out? Is that even possible?
TwistedKestrel wrote:FWIW, Memtest86 has since had a couple of single bit errors, but IDK if that's actually the RAM or what. I'm not done with letting it run yet, will see when I have more data
Kougar wrote:TwistedKestrel wrote:FWIW, Memtest86 has since had a couple of single bit errors, but IDK if that's actually the RAM or what. I'm not done with letting it run yet, will see when I have more data
There ya go, bad RAM or bad RAM settings. That Prime95 also had rounding errors pretty much confirms it.
TwistedKestrel wrote:I don't think that does confirm it. You run Memtest86 long enough on anything and you will get errors. RAM can of course fail in different ways, but if it were bad enough to cause the crashing I was seeing I would expect to see a lot of errors, and to see them often.
I think the errors that Memtest was seeing were not memory errors at all, but just an artifact of whatever is actually going on. I'm RMAing the motherboard, so we'll see
Kougar wrote:TwistedKestrel wrote:FWIW, Memtest86 has since had a couple of single bit errors, but IDK if that's actually the RAM or what. I'm not done with letting it run yet, will see when I have more data
There ya go, bad RAM or bad RAM settings. That Prime95 also had rounding errors pretty much confirms it.
TwistedKestrel wrote:The RAM is GeIL. Their RMA process was eh. Kinda similar to Gigabyte's RMA, except they communicate even less but they ship faster (once they tested my RAM, they shipped out a new set from Taiwan and I got it the NEXT DAY). I ran Memtest86 on the replacement set for 21 hours with the *bad* CPU and got no errors.
TwistedKestrel wrote:I'll try not to post too much until I actually have the thing in my hands, but I should clarify:
I can't say with 100% confidence that the RAM was actually defective last time, precisely due to what Chrispy said. The RAM got replaced *before* the CPU. And in the process the motherboard got RMA'ed as well. (I had no intention of needlessly requesting replacements, but I did do this through proper channels and they could well have sent the originals back)
Concupiscence wrote:I hope you figure out the problem soon. After enough RMA's you might end up with a PC of Theseus situation...