i have heard that ram goes bad for some ugly reason. (WORST TIME FOR IT TO GO BAD WHEN THE PRICES ARE SKY ROCKETED) Well i have been having problems installing everything (games) i have been told it is DMA / PIO problems with the drives. which is related to the IDE drivers (Secondary) but it still has problems installing and i have to do the little DMA trick everytime. Long story short im wondering if ram does go bad. WHy, and is it fixable? my computer Roxzors and suxzors at the same time!

Ram goes bad almost always because of ESD damage. ElectroStatic Discharge is static electricity by dopes and bafoones handling electronic parts and units. I retired from IBM and when they tested returns that ranged from no finds to hard crash they almost always pointed to ESD damage. In a semiconductor junction (the basic reason that solid state works) the electrons usually set to either flow or not flow. On-Off. That On-Off is like a switch. That switch is damaged by esd and now it may or may not switch with it is supposed to. Yes it would be fixable if everyone in the tech world understood and practiced every method of preventing ESD damage.

T.Mitchell: RAM diagnostics at: http://www.memtest86.com http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp