By Staff Scheduled maintenance: server RAM replacement

[Jack]

MalwareTips will be offline for about 30–60 minutes. During that time the forum will not be available.

Why: our diagnostics found one of the server’s DDR5 memory modules is faulty. It is flipping bits at random (memtester reported repeated errors, all on the same memory channel). This has caused occasional errors in cached data. We checked the disks and databases and they are intact. Backups are verified and stored offsite. To fix the problem properly, the datacenter will power down the server and replace the faulty RAM.

After the swap we will re-run our memory and data integrity checks before declaring everything back to normal.

Thank you for your patience!

 

[Jack]

Maintenance complete

MalwareTips is back online. The faulty memory module has been replaced!

The server was offline from 16:25 to 19:03 UTC, longer than planned. After the hardware swap, the server needed a filesystem repair and a network configuration fix before it could come back. Our disk and database checks found no data loss, and backups were verified before and after the work.

We are still running memory tests on the new RAM in the background. If you notice anything unusual, please let us know in this thread.

Thank you for your patience!

 

[AFEH]

 

[Jack]

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YES

 

[TairikuOkami]

Oh no, you should not have posted that. My first thought, after reading the title was, that it got stolen, now it will be for sure.

 

[lokamoka820]

 

[stonjean633]

192GB RAM kit for Servers cost a fortune nowadays.
Likely between 7K to 11K USD....this is the new gold

 

[Ice Dream']

AIDA64 RAM test is far better than memtest

 

[Ice Dream']

192GB RAM kit for Servers cost a fortune nowadays.
Likely between 7K to 11K USD....this is the new gold

so it did during the XP era when we had 128
yes ram costs but if we talk at this quantity then well...
I've seen websites running just fine with 48 tbh

 

[stonjean633]

so it did during the XP era when we had 128
yes ram costs but if we talk at this quantity then well...
I've seen websites running just fine with 48 tbh

I only have 128MB of DDR1 during that time. My Mobo was from ECS that supports both SDR and DDR. That's my first build.

 

[Ice Dream']

I only have 128MB of DDR1 during that time. My Mobo was from ECS that supports both SDR and DDR. That's my first build.

keep in mind that the required ram to run xp equals to one single browser tab
rip athlons!