[olug] RAM Tester

[Shawn L. Djernes]

To answer both of you.

Yes I can boot a USB, but I am not sure I trust the motherboard. It has run
fine for about a day without random reboots.

I may write a Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop image and let it run memtest. It has
worked well for me in the past. Luckily I have not put the case back
together yet.

Shawn L. Djernes N0PEU
sdjernes at gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 10:15 Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

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