Can ram go bad then go back to normal?

SuperCookie78 · March 6, 2020

So i transport my gpu and ram back an form from my college pc and my home pc. i have two 16gb kits of ddr3. when i came back to school at the begining of the semester one of kits would cause boot looping. So i took it out and had it on my desk. Today i go back home for spring break. I was thinking of leaving my pc on with FAH running, but that would require me to keep some ram here. So i put one stick back in and it worked. then i tried the other stick and it worked too. Is it possible for ram to cause errors then after sitting for a while stop causing errors? And do you think leaving my computer running with these "bad" sticks for a week would cause a crash or even harm to the system?

Zando_ · March 6, 2020

It was probably just reseating the RAM that fixed it, sometimes that's all the hardware needs. Same as blowing on the old nintendo cartridges and such.

SuperCookie78 · March 6, 2020

13 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

It was probably just reseating the RAM that fixed it, sometimes that's all the hardware needs. Same as blowing on the old nintendo cartridges and such.

well i spent about an hour reseating the ram when it was boot looping so idk

Sir0Tek · March 7, 2020

19 hours ago, SuperCookie78 said:

So i transport my gpu and ram back an form from my college pc and my home pc. i have two 16gb kits of ddr3. when i came back to school at the begining of the semester one of kits would cause boot looping. So i took it out and had it on my desk. Today i go back home for spring break. I was thinking of leaving my pc on with FAH running, but that would require me to keep some ram here. So i put one stick back in and it worked. then i tried the other stick and it worked too. Is it possible for ram to cause errors then after sitting for a while stop causing errors? And do you think leaving my computer running with these "bad" sticks for a week would cause a crash or even harm to the system?

Did you run memtest86?