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First, thank you very much for your excellent software and hard work.
Because of catastrophic component failure, I had to replace several components (PSU, motherboard and RAM). While not all of the RAM had failed, I replaced all four DIMMs so that the new ones would match, down to their revision numbers.
Replacements for the PSU and motherboard are the exact same SKUs; for the RAM, I used the same SKU, albeit a different, more up-to-date revision (as the older revision is no longer being sold around here). My components are as follows: a Ryzen 9 5950x CPU, an ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard (BIOS version is 3904) and 128GB of DDR4-3200 RAM (two kits of Corsair 2x32GB CMK64GX4M2E3200C16 v4.49 RAM, replacing v3.40 that I used to have). Everything is set at stock speeds, and nothing is overclocked.
Before the failure, the machine was stable. However, after having replaced said components I cannot seem to successfully complete a RAM test. That is, while all other tests succeed, I get (mostly) reproducible failures on test 6. Said failures mostly happen after one successful pass, so when test 6 is reached on pass 2 and onwards, errors start ramping up (sometimes instantly after test 6 begins). Failing addresses are all around the place (from 190MB and all the way up to the high 90GB's, however due to RAM interleaving I cannot be sure whether or not the failures happen in one stick). Moreover, failures are detected on all CPU cores, without exception.
I have no idea what this could be attributed to. To my understanding, CPU and RAM involvement cannot be ruled out. However, due to the fact that the first pass *does* succeed, I wanted to ask whether this could be a bug in test 6 with regards to this specific memory revision and BIOS version?
Searching online revealed that there used to be an issue with test 6 before (see: https://forums.passmark.com/memtest8...u-real-problem), so I am just asking out of caution, as I would preferably spare myself of doing another round of hardware replacements.
For the sake of completeness, I've attached a screenshot of one of my initial testing sessions (perhaps some useful information is seen in it).
P.S. Having used the free version before, I purchased the Pro version today. I haven't run any extended tests with it yet, but I wonder if there is a significant benefit to running the additional tests (11 and 12), in terms of determining RAM issues?
Thank you very much!
First, thank you very much for your excellent software and hard work.
Because of catastrophic component failure, I had to replace several components (PSU, motherboard and RAM). While not all of the RAM had failed, I replaced all four DIMMs so that the new ones would match, down to their revision numbers.
Replacements for the PSU and motherboard are the exact same SKUs; for the RAM, I used the same SKU, albeit a different, more up-to-date revision (as the older revision is no longer being sold around here). My components are as follows: a Ryzen 9 5950x CPU, an ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero motherboard (BIOS version is 3904) and 128GB of DDR4-3200 RAM (two kits of Corsair 2x32GB CMK64GX4M2E3200C16 v4.49 RAM, replacing v3.40 that I used to have). Everything is set at stock speeds, and nothing is overclocked.
Before the failure, the machine was stable. However, after having replaced said components I cannot seem to successfully complete a RAM test. That is, while all other tests succeed, I get (mostly) reproducible failures on test 6. Said failures mostly happen after one successful pass, so when test 6 is reached on pass 2 and onwards, errors start ramping up (sometimes instantly after test 6 begins). Failing addresses are all around the place (from 190MB and all the way up to the high 90GB's, however due to RAM interleaving I cannot be sure whether or not the failures happen in one stick). Moreover, failures are detected on all CPU cores, without exception.
I have no idea what this could be attributed to. To my understanding, CPU and RAM involvement cannot be ruled out. However, due to the fact that the first pass *does* succeed, I wanted to ask whether this could be a bug in test 6 with regards to this specific memory revision and BIOS version?
Searching online revealed that there used to be an issue with test 6 before (see: https://forums.passmark.com/memtest8...u-real-problem), so I am just asking out of caution, as I would preferably spare myself of doing another round of hardware replacements.
For the sake of completeness, I've attached a screenshot of one of my initial testing sessions (perhaps some useful information is seen in it).
P.S. Having used the free version before, I purchased the Pro version today. I haven't run any extended tests with it yet, but I wonder if there is a significant benefit to running the additional tests (11 and 12), in terms of determining RAM issues?
Thank you very much!
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