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

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    i wonder if it was the motherboard sending wrong voltage or something like that. What are the chances of TWO modules failing AT THE SAME TIME (although it’s the same kit, identical memory, so maybe it could be damaged silicon and i never noticed before)

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yeah two sticks at once to me says mobo issue, IF you tested each stick individually and they both failed separately. Maybe not fried, I’d be hesitant to try them in a better mobo to not fry a slot too, but they might still be fine.

      Did you test each stick individually to confirm both are dead? If two sticks are in there and it fails all that means is “at least one failed”. That’s just an indicator to go one stick at a time to determine which one.

    • Lasherz@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Try and single out the cpu cache with cache less mode. 2 sticks is a weird issue if timing didn’t slip on the memory controller or overvoltage was applied.

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Maybe 1 is causing the other to fail?
      Could try the sticks individually.

      It is strange that 2 sticks fail at the same time. It smells like a symptom instead of the root issue.

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        In fact they should try. Due to dual/quad mode the only thing testing multiple sticks at once will tell you is if any of the sticks have failed. Only going one by one will tell you which ones or how many, otherwise you’ll have red herrings

        • towerful@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
          They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both “dead” sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.

          I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.