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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but it’s a hardware issue that’s beyond my caring to try and troubleshoot. Random blue screens, memtest86 shows an error always at the same address no matter which sodimms I put or swap them around. I guess it runs until software enters that address range and blam! I think it might be power supply related at the board level, not the power brick. I don’t feel like changing capacitors at random, for all I know there might be voltage out of spec because a resistor value drifted.

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  • tryp@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If the memory error is in a small address range and you are willing to get super nerdy, you can tell the linux kernel to avoid the bad addresses. Some discussion in unix.stackexchange.com/…/user-friendly-way-to-app…

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