I have an Asus K550V notebook with Windows 10 Pro X64, bought few years ago and out of warranty. This model has 8GB DDR4 Ram module directly soldered on motherboard and also has a slot for adding other 8GB. The problem is that the soldered module has some damaged cells (as showed by Sysmark MemTest86 utility) and this, obviously, causes a lot of troubles (blue screens and so on) and it also makes impossible to reinstall Windows (or even Linux). I cannot afford neither to buy a new laptop just now nor an expensive repair and I absolutely need it for my job so I wonder: is there any chance to bypass the damaged cells so that an OS doesn’t use them and can work correctly something similar to, for example, the marked bad clusters makes by checkdisk?
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Some rams have lifetime warranty.
1-Try to insist on warranty by requesting them to force expenses on ram company.
2-Try to use blacklisting memory addresses using memtest with burnmem or maxmem or what your os provides.
3-Solder and vacuum VCC and Sense legs of faulty module so that I wont take power and system will bypass it entirely (It is risky and may not work. If it wont work you should resolder it or remove it entirely. Ask about it in Hardware repair forums until you are sure.)
