[olug] RAM Tester

Thu Sep 4 18:37:48 CDT 2025

Crucial offers a "lifetime" warranty for RAM.  It's been quite a few years
since I've needed to use it, but you ought to check their site to see if
they'll replace it.

-- 
Christopher

On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM Shawn L. Djernes <sdjernes at gmail.com> 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
> > 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/
> >>
> >> 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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