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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.
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I understood that there was a slight possibility of me having a formatting error when I called @Discobot with other text but when it did not work when I only used his name I was definitely confused. Good to know he is just screwing with me. 
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Internet woes continue today. Got the replacement Router yesterday hooked it up and had some minor issues but I was able to access the Internet. New box quit working a few minutes ago and now I am unable to access AT&Tās online troubleshooting site with my phone too.
Trying to find out if there is an area outage causing the problem or if the new box is the problem.
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Oh man that sounds like a never ending story.
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Sounds like the power in your mains has some nasty spikes.
Itās Kaliformia where the wildfires roam freely and the power grid is always overstressed so anything is possible @schurem.
I do run it on a surge suppressor strip hoping to mitigate that possibility though. Just bought a battery backup surge suppressor for the new unit too.
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Tech support is supposed to be out between noon and two today. If it is still a bad Gateway router, as I suspect, I will be down all weekend again. Tech support does not carry replacement units on their trucks and I could not get phone support to ship one to cover that possibility.
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good luck 
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Well tech support is here. It may not be the Gateway router after all. Seems they put in a new junction box down the street in the last few weeks and rewired it to known records. Ever since they have been having to fix the service to the houses since the old wiring diagram records were not kept current.
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Yep, the contractor that AT&T hired wired the new junction box/distribution box wrongā¦
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Igniter and or burner went out on the stove again a couple of days ago. Ordered the parts to fix it today.
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Well FedEx surprised me. 1900 hours and they just delivered the igniter I ordered for the stove yesterday.
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Been having the occasional segfault since i got my new computer when running heavy duty data processing jobs, and stability issues with games under windows. Today i finally had the time to run MemTest86 and lo and behold, after 4 minutes weāre up to >1000 errors. Pulled the sticks, cleaned them, put them back in, same thing. Went 200Mhz down from the DOCP profile, suddenly theyāre stable. So I tested both of them separately at the DOCP spec frequency to find the faulty one. Go figure, both of them run fine. Put them back in in reverse order of how they were originally and now they work. I mean, WTF? 
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I spoke too soon, i guess. Things are getting really weird. So the memory errors are back, but i canāt reproduce them fully. As in sometimes a test passes in memtest, sometimes it doesnāt. Iām starting to suspect a thermal issue is at play here.
Edit: Ok i think i got it now. Seems to have been an issue with the (ever so slight) overclock i had set. Zen2 really does NOT want to be clocked any higher than stock. I canāt say Iāve ever seen a CPU react so weirdly to overclocking with very rare determinism issues. I always thought determinism breaking was a thing when you get very close to where the CPU wonāt boot at all.
Edit2: Ok so now Iām really at my wits end with this. I have runs in memtest that go through without a single issue, others accumulate thousands of errors.
Windows memtest? I have had that come back clean with faulty ram multiple times. I donāt trust it at all.
What I like to do is run Prime95 in the custom test mode and tell it to use all the RAM. Usually a bad stick induces a crash, so shutdown, pull one and run again for a couple minutes (donāt have to wait long typically). If that one is OK, shutdown, remove and try the other one by itself. Process of elimination usually finds the faulty DIMM, which can be replaced.
No, the proper PassMark MemTest86. Windows Memtest couldnāt find faulty RAM if it was hit in the head with it.
I did not find any errors on single sticks. PassMark reports on their HP that sometimes errors occur only when RAM is used in dual channel mode.
Edit: Iāve gone a smidge above the DOCP profile voltage spec and so far it seems stable, hopefully thatās the end of it.
I used memtest86 once, but back then I was not skilled in making use of the tool and also got no results. This would have been around 2013 maybe? I probably only ran a single pass.
Reading up on the tool again as Iād expect Passmark to make a quality tool.
I am seeing a report that running fewer than 8 passes can lead to false negatives, a report of a user with only errors in dual channel mode - but on very old hardware (i7-870 system). Errors only showed on tests#6, 8 & 10 in this users report. Running fewer passes prior to this advice he got all clear on single channel.
This problem iām having might really be temp related, as itās so intermittent. For now it runs stable @1.38 instead of the default 1.35 volts.
Edit: Nah, still not entirely stable. This is starting to smell like an RMA is in order. #!$Ā§"%