[olug] RAM Tester

[Ben Hollingsworth]

Glad you found the culprit.  Does NewEgg have any that they can blow the 
dust off of?

On 2025-09-04 5:36 PM, Shawn L. Djernes wrote:
> Update on the QNAP Ram issue.
>
> I ran Memtest86+ from the Clonzilla recovery USB that I used to restore the
> internal DOM module.  On the original 4GB stick that shipped with the
> device, no problems were found in two passes.  Made me feel somewhat
> positive that the motherboard was good.
>
> Put in the 16G Crucial (2x8G) and started the test again.
> Immediately within the first 1% we were getting errors.  Now I did not know
> if it was a controller or the RAM (suspecting RAM at this point) was bad.
> Removed one stick and no errors in 10% of a pass.  Now I'm worried it was
> the second slot.  Nope moved the second stick into slot one by itself and
> we are getting all sorts of errors.
>
> So I am off to find a 16G (2x8G) DDR3L set of RAM for this thing.  Hoping I
> will not have to go to eBay.  I know this is old.
>
> Thanks for the pointers,
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM Shawn L. Djernes<sdjernes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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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/
>>>
>>> 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
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