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Failing Prime95 on RAM test - HW failure?
Hi all,Over this weekend I've been testing my RAM modules due to a request I got from technical support.
I use Private Internet Access VPN and if I leave my VPN running for 24 hours, at some point its process will get killed.
The support told me that I probably have a memory leak due to log files warnings, and I was asked to test my RAM.
I own 4x4GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz on XMP profile over Z97 chipset. I used latest Memtest86 build and I tested each RAM module individually on each DIMM slot.
Each RAM module was tested to 10 passes, which I believe is enough to establish an issue.No errors were presented.
Yet. memtest86 is not enough because I don't really stress the RAM controller in dual channel mode.So I installed all RAM modules back in place, ran Win10 and disabled all 3rd party processes that boot with windows.
I also killed every process which is not required.I launched latest Prime95 build and did a Custom test and allocated 14500MB (no FFT) and have only fixed 1024MB of virtual memory (manually handled, that is, not handled by Windows).
I started the test on Aug 27, 08:57AM
Worker #6 stopped working on Aug 28, 6:05AM with the following message:
Cannot initialize FFT code, errorcode=1005 Unable to allocate memory.
One possible cause is the operating system's swap area is too small.
Torture test completed 276 tests in 21 hours, 7 minutes - 0 errors, 0 warnings.Worker stopped.
All other workres are still running.Is this a HW issue? Configuration issue? or some OS corruption?