Think I got a bad stick of RAM

 

 

Ran memtest before for ~8 hours, no error.

 

Running it again now.

 

Can someone else chime in?

 

Edited September 26, 20178 yr by CrimsonTyphoon

I've had bad ram pass memory checks when left for days but the problems went away the minute I removed the duff ram.

Memtest86 ran for 12+ hours and no fail. So far so good: 

 

 

Took the server apart and air blasted it, making sure there was no lingering dust. Took off both heat sinks, cleaned them too, and reapplied thermal paste (side note, both of my processors have a small hole in them in the corner? Never heard of that before). Also reseated all of the RAM.

 

Fingers crossed. Lets see what happens

 

You might also try a newer version of Memtest.  I got mine here (the free version not the paid):

https://www.memtest86.com/

 

I also ran it for a week (22 passes) on 128GB.

 

Not saying it would find anything either like allanp81 said.  But even 12 hours is half the time I would normally run myself.  For my 128GB that would have only been 3 passes.

Edited September 27, 20178 yr by BobPhoenix