Does the bios have an option to disable onboard ram? On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:14 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yeah, I have 3 inch USB fan the the PC sits on so it gets lots of > cooling... it is just bad ram, and I think I am screwed here > > > At 05:35 PM 3/19/2018, you wrote: > >> Is there any space to mount those mini heatsinks that are made for ram >> chips. May be heat related and extra cooling may prolong its life Any way >> to chop a small circle hole anywhere for a low profile fan on the chassis. >> I've mounted these to the outer surface of small cases with a fan grill >> when additional cooling seemed necessary whenever they couldn't fit inside >> >> lopaka >> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Winterlight <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> > I have a mini computer LIVA X running windows 8.1 Media Center that I >> use >> > with my TV. It started to blue screen intermittently and with no >> apparent >> > reason. Let it sit for a bit, start it up and it works again....for a >> few >> > hours... a day... or a week...it is intermitent! After isolating the >> eSata >> > drive (removing it) and running diagnostics I was able to determine >> that I >> > have a bad RAM chip memtest = http://rode.us/BadLivaRam.jpg >> > >> > Two 2GB DDR3 RAM chips are soldered to the board. So damn... there is >> > nothing I can do about that... or is there? I am thinking that the >> second >> > chip is the problem. Most of the time the RAM sits in the cache but >> > eventrually for what ever reason it gets accessed and boom... it blue >> > screens. I don't need the extra 2GB of RAM for what I do so I am >> thinking >> > if I create a 2GB RAM Drive and never use it I might be able to >> mitigate >> > this problem.....what do you think? >> > >> > >> > >
