• Billygoat@catata.fish
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    13 hours ago

    I understand the reasoning, why computers nowadays take forever for the first boot due to ram optimization, but a previous computer that I built, I didn’t know that and for hours I thought the motherboard was broken. Now it always makes me nervous on if there’s an issue or it’s just taking forever to do the optimization.

    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Hang on, I’ve never heard of this. I haven’t built a huge amount of machines but never knew about RAM training!

      I even did a Compaq course back in the day ~25 years ago. Is this a recent thing, by any chance (DDR era)?

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 hours ago

      Yeah RAM training is just unnerving. For like 6 minutes you have a Schroedinger’s box that is either fucked or about to POST

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      Wait what? How does that work? Is there some data storage in the motherboard that’s remembering the best way to organize your ram?