Doesn’t your observations suggest DIMM1 slot is faulty but not the ram stick? If a ram that works perfectly in DIMM2 (with DIMM1 empty) consistently crashes system when switched to be seated in DIMM1 (with DIMM2 empty), the first slot is guilty until proven otherwise.
yes, though the error that I get when i only have one DIMM in the motherboard is an Error Code 2000-0122 which is an initialization failure of the empty DIMM slot. That sounds like a weird false positive since the slot is empty and therefore shouldn't be initialized? It's also strange that the errors don't occur when both slots are using 4GB DIMMs (the computer just freezes randomly once or twice a month instead of consistently blue-screening at loading Windows)
redxps630
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January 24th, 2021 19:00
Doesn’t your observations suggest DIMM1 slot is faulty but not the ram stick? If a ram that works perfectly in DIMM2 (with DIMM1 empty) consistently crashes system when switched to be seated in DIMM1 (with DIMM2 empty), the first slot is guilty until proven otherwise.
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January 25th, 2021 06:00
yes, though the error that I get when i only have one DIMM in the motherboard is an Error Code 2000-0122 which is an initialization failure of the empty DIMM slot. That sounds like a weird false positive since the slot is empty and therefore shouldn't be initialized? It's also strange that the errors don't occur when both slots are using 4GB DIMMs (the computer just freezes randomly once or twice a month instead of consistently blue-screening at loading Windows)
Tesla1856
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January 25th, 2021 09:00
Sounds like a bad motherboard.
I think it's about time to retire that machine.
Hopefully, you can return the new ram-memory DIMMs.