Thanks guys, your responses seem to substantiate what I have experienced. You have seen memory module problems and failures on other people rigs, most notably on newer PCs or PCs with RAM upgrades, but you have never experienced any on your own personal machines. I know some of you work your units pretty hard, often regularly carrying them back and forth to gigs, and that was the primary reason for asking my question on the forum.

I'll probably buy a couple of sticks of RAM, but I'll bet with the usual care, caution, and maintenance I'll never need them. In all my years of computing on the PCs I've owned, I've seen failing hard drives, power supplies, CD/DVD burners, monitors, as well as other components but never a memory module. From your responses, it is clear that memory modules are pretty far down on your GTF and PWF lists ("Guaranteed to Fail" and "Probably Will Fail" lists).

Again, thanks for taking the time to respond.

JBlatz