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charlieg wrote: 1) Using RAM test tools, have you ever found a bad RAM? Replaced it and all was well?
Yes.
Your issues may be related to the memory controller though, so you can try and try and never catch the issue until it manifests. Issues on ground (half signals, floating signals) on some line may cause that, or heat altering some line / memory cell characteristics enough to kill it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes. I have a nice pile of defected memory...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: defected
So it is working... but for the enemy.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Marketing? 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I may have in my desktop. I'd been getting crashes that my crash analysis tool suggested were probably memory related over the last year and which got markedly worse recently, memtest86 ran clear overnight. Friday morning I down-clocked my ram from DDR3-2400 to DDR3-1600 and have been crash free over the weekend; long enough to suggest the issue is solved.
That said I'm sure sure it's an inherent memory problem; my CPU is watercooled so there's not a ton of airflow around the ram; and since early this year I've been using an aircooled GPU again (and more recently a hotter/faster one). My ram is hot to the touch, so it's possible I'm just seeing an overheating issue that memtest86 by leaving the rest of the system at idle didn't trigger. I'm probably going to order a ram cooler later this week and see if that lets me restore to full speed operation.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Well after suffering a weekend and a few days of BSODs, I have new ram installed. If it hasn't crashed in 8 hours, Crucial is getting their ram back.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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How many modules?
If more than one (this is a laptop afterall ...) be sure to "jiggle" them. Power down/power up see. If that doesn't help, try swapping them. Power down/power up see.
How to "jiggle" them, you ask? Obviously you've got to take the shell off and be able to see the edge-connectors. Etc ...
On a big graphics-card-heated desktop where the first memory slot is located exactly due north of that hotspot, that DIMM is always coughing and wheezing. Swap always seems to do the trick.
And something I've never tried but might work ... duct tape a tab of paracetemol to each module. Power-down/power-up. See.
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The only bad memory I have is in my skull. 
Entropy will win in the end.
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well the jiggle thing is a valid suggestion. I removed both SO-DIMMs, cleaned their contacts it alcohol, cleaned the sockets with the same alcohol, let it dry.
crash after many hours.
Swapped the SO-DIMMs per one suggestion - crash after some hours.
I'm going to pull the trigger for new memory. Interestingly, my SO-DIMMS are labeled 16GB. They show up in the BIOS and Windows as 32GB. 4+ years ago, I think I looked at the plastic case containing the SO-DIMMS. So I tried chatting with Crucial about an exact substitute. My wife wonders why I drink. It was hopeless. I mean utterly braindead hopeless.
As another poster said, I'll download the analyzer...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The saga continues. Two new updates.
First, yesterday while the laptop was idling, I received a BSOD I've never seen before: driver_overran_stack_buffer. Hmm. According to Microsoft:
"A driver overran a stack-based buffer (or local variable) in a way that would have overwritten the function's return address and jumped back to an arbitrary address when the function returned.
This is the classic "buffer overrun" hacking attack. The system has been brought down to prevent a malicious user from gaining complete control of it."
Double hmm. Full virus scan found nothing. Of course, all of the other references indicate bad drivers, which I have had a terrible time with Microsoft replacing drivers. Over the weekend, I'll run a deep scan booting off a USB drive. We'll see if anything else pops up.
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Second weird issue - RAM. Since I've had this laptop, I have had 64GB in it. I purchased two Crucial SO-DIMMs. When I pull up the BIOS, it sees 64GB. When I check task manager, it says 64GB. But the label on each module says 16GB. I sent the picture to Crucial. They confirmed 16GB. Suggested maybe a labeling issue with the vendor. Dude, it's YOUR label on the SO-DIMM  . Support did not understand. I'm in touch with Micron to determine the true density of the chips which I'm pretty sure are sized for 32GB.
The entire point of the RAM exercise is if I replace the RAM, I need to make sure I order the correct part. I got these from Amazon which is totally useless from a customer support perspective. I'll go to NewEgg next time.
Charlie Gilley
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As an aside, does anyone have a recommendation for a good virus/malware (I guess they are the same these days).
I'm specifically looking for something I can boot off a USB that is an excellent scanner.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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fliers put soarers in disarray (10)
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Is that a word?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I think so, not knowing which word you have in mind.
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The right one of that flying dinosaur
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Pterosaurs - that's all I can make of it
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Snap - but you were quicker! 
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You can have it if you want as I did cheat checking the spelling of it online 
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No, it's cool - I can't speel fer tawfy eiver!
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pTerosaurs! 
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
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"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Busy, busy, busy ... done.
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I'm looking for the original trava.fbx model for an old XNA game called Legenda o Zmaju programmed by Ivan Šoštarko. The source code with assets is available for download from GitHub but the model in question is missing. I've tried to use some other grass models availabe for download from the Internet instead the original but with no success. They just doesn't work even if I modify texture paths on them to point to the original texture file path. The texture coordinates still remains wrong so the result is not as expected (in the game world). So now if someone has the model file I would really do appreciate it if he or she put the file available for download to some site for example to here.
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