Two faulty RAM sodimm modules at once?

[tickedon]

Hi everyone

My Dell Precision M6600 started acting up. The Dell diagnostics indicated memory problems. I have 2 x 4gb modules. I tried each in both slots. It errored on both modules (tried individually) and both slots.

The error code is 2000-0122.

I find it hard to believe both modules would fail at once.

I don't have a third module to test

Is there any chance this is a motherboard or CPU (memory controller?) at fault? Or could both sticks indeed be faulty?

[Agent]

Is there any chance this is a motherboard or CPU (memory controller?) at fault? Or could both sticks indeed be faulty?

Yup - but the only way to know is to swap them out

I've just chucked out a old motherboard today with a bad memory controller. It would always fail at roughly the same address, no matter how many sticks, or which sticks were installed. I tried with over 6 sticks from varying brands and out of known working systems, it was defo the board that was the issue.

[smargh]

Look for scratches on the PCB on the traces going to the memory module sockets.