PSA: Always run memtest after you build your server

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My WHS kept dropping connections to the clients. I discovered that it was throwing NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD's at random intervals after I hooked it up to a monitor. After a few more reboots and checking the Event Log I gave up on finding a cause. Come today I get the ASUS recovery BIOS message and no POST at all.

I'm on pass #5 of Memtest now and it's looking like I have to RMA the memory.

Just a PSA kids, make sure you do your testing right after you build.

 

[unhappy_mage]

... and ECC memory isn't such a bad idea, either. Sometimes the problems aren't so blatant as this.

 

[Impulse]

Those BSODs are pretty common when memory's the issue, testing your memory (even when it's brand spanking new) is always a good practice... It's probably one of the most common parts to be defective out of the box these days, if not the most common. Close race between 'em and GPUs I guess, heh.