need some input

Ok so ive had a 512mb stick of Samsung PC2700 for a few months, and last night I was messing with stuff in my case and took the memory out to make some room for my hands, and when I put it back in and booted into windows, Im getting errors with programs that "xxxxxxxxxx memory location cannot be read". I cant keep trillian open for more than 3 seconds without getting that error, is it possible I damaged a section of my memory last night and when trillian goes looking for some memory it finds bad sectors? I dont know of any programs to thoroughly analize the memory and see if there is any problems if there are any. I also tried reinstalling trillian and I get the same issue.

Did you put the memory back in the same slot it came out of?

There's a utility called Memtest86 that you copy to a floppy and boot from that will test your memory.

memtest86 will definitely tell you if something's wrong with the RAM. I don't mean to insult you, but did you unplug your PSU before you took the RAM out/in?

yea i took all precautions, i even had one of those antistatic wrist straps on, im going to reformat today and see if that helps