{"id":775,"date":"2016-03-14T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.118.115\/?p=775"},"modified":"2016-03-14T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T01:59:00","slug":"esxi-5-5-crashing-windows-guest-wont-load-a-simple-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/14\/esxi-5-5-crashing-windows-guest-wont-load-a-simple-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"ESXi 5.5 crashing &#8211; Windows Guest won&#039;t load &#8211; A simple reminder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days some new guests on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/whitebox-esxi-host\/\">whitebox vmhost<\/a>\u00a0(which has been\u00a0running for almost a year now) started behaving badly! Symptoms listed below, and I&#8217;m sure there are were\u00a0more. \u00a0There wasn&#8217;t really any pattern to the crashing, it was very random. Things went awry after\u00a0I added my ninth guest and the host peaked into the 14-16GB of RAM range. My existing guests running PRTG, Zoneminder, VPN and NGINX all were fine&#8230; all were stable. Just a few new Windows guests I have been using for testing were crashing. I couldn&#8217;t even reinstall windows without a BSOD while loading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware ESX unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)<\/li>\n<li>MONITOR PANIC: Unable to decompress PPN from swap slot for VM<\/li>\n<li>loading windows starting and crashing\u00a0Msrpc.sys<\/li>\n<li>Windows MMC&#8217;s not loading, crashing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I ran memtest86+ on the full 32 gigs with no failures (with only one pass, probably not a good idea) and figured it couldn&#8217;t be RAM.<br \/>\nGoogling\u00a0took me\u00a0down some rabbit holes unloading custom NIC\u00a0drivers I&#8217;ve added. Almost ready to reinstall ESXi. But the issue still persisted.\u00a0 Finally decided to run memtest \u00a0actually in the VM that was having troubles. <strong>Errors within seconds.<\/strong> I pulled half the RAM, ran it again&#8230; no issues. Looks like it&#8217;s bad RAM. RMA time.<br \/>\nSo an issue I&#8217;ve seen many times back in my Geek Squad days in college- got me. A reminder, even in 2016, don&#8217;t rule out bad memory so quick, it would have saved me a few hours tonight.<br \/>\nAnd finally, the purple screen!<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-image-777 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/foto_no_exif-3-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"foto_no_exif (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bad memory, right?<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days some new guests on my whitebox vmhost\u00a0(which has been\u00a0running for almost a year now) started behaving badly! Symptoms listed below, and I&#8217;m sure there are were\u00a0more. \u00a0There wasn&#8217;t really any pattern to the crashing, it was very random. Things went awry after\u00a0I added my ninth guest and the host peaked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}