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    Good morning,
    technical question:
    I am using BIT 10.2 v1014 on a pc that has 2 banks of RAM memory and has been reported with problems. I test in "very bad" mode...
    During testing I received 570075 SERIOUS errors: 2024-12-02 18:32:07, RAM, Error verifying data in RAM.
    By reading the report I can distinguish WHICH of the two banks is creating the problem?​

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    Applications that run in Windows use a virtual memory address space (each process gets it's own private set of addresses). So knowing the bad address isn't very helpful.

    Mapping virtual addresses to physical addresses is hard. Some of the time there is no mapping, as the memory page might get swapped to disk.

    Mapping physical addresses to specific memory sticks is also very hard.

    BurnInTest doesn't do this double mapping.

    However MemTest86 can do physical to hardware mapping for some CPUs and RAM. See this page for details.
    https://www.memtest86.com/tech_DIMM_Decoding.html
    MemTest86 doesn't run in Windows, so this helps, as only a single level of mapping is required.

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