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I appreciate your responses but perhaps my fault was that I did not clearly state a question to be answered.

Have you ever personally experienced a failing RAM memory module on any of your PCs?



I have troubleshot and repaired computers where RAM failure was indeed the culprit.

Don't have any sort of records available on that to come up with a statistical, but offhand I'd say that, while the situation is not epidemic in nature, it does indeed occur.

It does not seem to be something that happens with time, though, in quite a few cases the failure was found in rather "new" machines or in machines where the customer had added aftermarket RAM chips to up the memory ante at some point, it probably worked at first, but at some point they would start to have failures such as the Blue Screen of Death, Freezeups, Crashes, or he inability to load a program. Most customers would suggest that they thought they had a virus or the likes when presenting. Good Diagnostic software tools can be used to pinpoint whether or not such problems are due to Memory probs, or PSU issues, etc.

As for whether or not the OP should purchase spare RAM or not, well, I cannot answer that question and neither can anybody else. Your present RAM could last forever, or it could fail tomorrow, as there are many factors to consider that might cause ram chips to go south, not just catastrophic component failures, which, if you think about it, cannot be predicted. But consider some of those other situations, such as a lightning strike somewhere on your power line that may get inside the puter and may damage ram or even other components. That could happen even if the PC is turned off but still connected to AC power and Internet/Network cabling, audio peripherals, etc.

I can say this: Those folks who have tried to maintain an older PC and matching OS for a longer time, in general, eventually always end up having to bite the bullet and upgrade anyway at some point.

Consider that Support for XP is soon to become extinct, as well.


--Mac

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