Windows has similar capabilities. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/whea/how-to-manage-the-pfa-memory-list
https://superuser.com/questions/420051/running-windows-with-defective-ram -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry McGregor Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 5:47 PM To: [email protected]; Winterlight <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] BAD RAM Hi, Don't know on Windows, but Linux has the ability to map out memory blocks. http://gquigs.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-memory-howto.html?m=1 Harry On March 19, 2018 6:12:08 PM EDT, 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? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
