[olug] RAM Tester

[Dan Linder]

I was about to say the same thing Ben provided.  I haven’t seen a RAM
tester in person, my fall-back is to run Memtest86 from a known good
motherboard:

https://www.memtest86.com/

Dan

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> What I would do is download memtest86 onto a USB drive, boot from that
> drive, and let memtest run overnight.  Or does your QNAP have any way to
> boot from removable media?
>
> On 2025-09-03 9:44 AM, Shawn Djernes wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am back living in Omaha again, so maybe I will be able to start
> attending meetings again.
> >
> > I have some DDR3L SODIMMs 2x8Gig that I need to find out if are bad.
> >
> > My QNAP TVS-463 has been behaving oddly and in the process of my move I
> found the original memory that it came with.  I inserted the memory 1x4Gig
> and the unit has been stable for a day so far.
> >
> > I originally thought it was a disk corruption issue, but ruled that out
> as I was not able to successfully create a clean install on newer disks.
> >
> > If anyone knows of a place that has a RAM tester for DDR3L SODIMMs, let
> me know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > —
> > Shawn L. Djernes N0PEU
> > sdjernes at gmail.com
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> > F: +1 (888) 297-6310
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