Bad stick, after 6 months out of the blue

[NGL_BrSH]

I have the Mushkin PC2 8500 running 4-4-4-12 at 800 and one day one of my sticks has just gone bad?

Should i be worrying about something else in the computer like psu or a ram setting causing this premature failure or is it probably just a bad stick?

I've had bad ram out of the box before but never had it fail on me down the road.

Running well withing it's voltage spec of 2.2v

anyway happy thanksgiving :D

[NGL_BrSH]

no one has any insight on why good ram goes bad?

[Category 5]

Had the same happen to me before. Once the RAM just started throwing occassional errors at rated timings (where it was fine before) but worked at relaxed ones. Got it replaced and went with OCZ in that PC. OCZ worked fine for a year, then last night crashes galore. Memtest showed insane errors so I swapped sticks in/out. Errors are isolated to one stick, so it's a bad one...spontaneously.

Memory is so fast now, and even good ram isn't tested very thoroughly so I chalk it up to poor MTBF on some sticks. PSU is great, and so is everything else so I guess it's new sticks for me. Luckily it's cheap right now.

[NGL_BrSH]

hmm, it is weird, I guess I'm just worried because my PSU makes this chattering noise occasionally and I am worried it's damaging things. However with my Fluke MM it doesn't say that it's getting too much voltage. Coincidence I guess. Thank god for warrantys.

[Evilsizer]

well if the ram is based on microns high speed ic's they have been deing latly just for no reason oced or not. i still think that there was a bad batch as the dieing isnt as wide spread as i first thought it was. you can see other threads here and at xs about micron ic's dieing after about a week of use at rated timings/voltages. i would go thru the rma for new ram. GL!

[NGL_BrSH]

Thank you for your reply, i feel much better about it now.

Once my mind starts thinking about stuff, it just kinda snowballs.

[Category 5]

OCZ2P800R22GK PLatinum DDR2 based on Micron ICs?

You are worrying me now since I just got 4 sticks of the Crucial Ballistix 4-4-4-12 ram (2 2GB pairs) and those are D9 too. I got from newegg though, so hopefully they're from recent batches and problems are worked out.