Today sucks, I was running into problems with my Fedora install on my desktop today, couldn't install anything, having crash after crash. Segmentation faults, then I could not boot into the OS. Tried to reinstall, I could not boot into the new install.

Finally I get out a copy of memtest86+ and... Well let's just say I got to get new ram for it... ( ╥ω╥ )

Luckily I got some on order so I should be good. But for now, I am relegated to my trusty Thinkpad T480.

First time in a long time I have ever had ram go bad on me. Last time was on an old hp laptop I had over a decade and a half ago that had only 2gb of ram running Ubuntu.

#badram #computerproblems #Linux

I have a DIMM with a bad bit which #memtest (86+ v 5.01) reports at 0045de6fa98, but it gives me #badram pattern of badram=0xdde6fa98,0xfffffffc ... Am I right to be concerned about the discrepancy in the upper bits between the reported address and the badram line? This is an i7 960 with 18GiB RAM in 6 DIMMs and (of course) will be running a 64 bit kernel. @catoutofbed