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lemmy.world down... (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@sopuli.xyz
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Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it's down. xD

Edit: damn, they're already back up this quick

Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q

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[–] 55 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Faulty memory modules are rare. At least in my life.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I had BOTH of my memory modules die simultaneously in my first beefy computer I built. I was very lucky that OCZ had a lifetime warranty—they didn’t even ask for the memtest results, they just sent me two new sticks.

    Then both of my (SLI) video cards died… those too were in warranty, but I began to wonder if my computer was cursed.

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  • [–] 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Bad psu checks out

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yknow that’s what I thought! But after replacing memory and GPU, everything worked great for a year or two until I sold it! I did bring it into my work (I used to work computer repair) and used the shop’s PSU tester which passed it…. I think it was just a fluke! I do know the cards I bought (2 x 7900GT) had a bit of a notoriety for failing, but I do not think the RAM had the same issue.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    If it wasn’t the PSU or motherboard, then it’s possible they were both just from a bad batch

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    The friend I sold it to used the PSU and mobo for another couple years before upgrading, so I think you’re right! Just bad luck on my part hahaha. Thank goodness for good RMA policies!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Dirty electricity is also a possibility

    Brownouts, surges, lots of electrical stuff can absolutely crap on newer electronics

    I keep my PCs behind a whole home surge protector, on an isobar, and through a sinewave UPS

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It's also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.

    The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it's less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won't help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn't magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    It isn't magic but RAM doesn't tend to just stop working. You'll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it's replacement time.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I'd eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.

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