Rant: A whole server rack went down because of a single bad stick of RAM

Happened yesterday at a small office I support... they called me in a panic saying their whole network was dead. Spent two hours checking power, switches, the firewall... nothing. Finally ran a memory test on the main file server and boom, errors. It was one 16GB DDR4 stick in a bank of eight. The server was just locking up hard instead of giving a proper POST code. Had to pull them all out and test each one individually. Anyone know a faster way to isolate a bad DIMM in a big server without taking the whole thing apart?

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faith_chen721mo ago

Yeah, pulling them all out is such a pain.

olivia2481mo ago

Ugh, I just leave them in now.

michael_thomas5625d ago

Right? I've fully given up on that. It's not worth the time at all.