Dying ram?

[krass76]

Hello,

I appear to have some ram that is dying. It is Corsair Vengeance LP 1600MHz CL9 DDR3. The ram has never been overclocked.
Uppon cold boot i often get a message that some instruction referenced 0x00..020, which could not be read. Always that address; for almost a month now. And the error comes mostly from the Wacom driver but I remember also seeing it coming from other programs that load with Windows.
I already let memtest run 4 full "laps", it couldn't find anything. Then I ran all the tests 50x on the first couple addresses (0x0..0 to 0x0..200). Nothing.
It seems that as long as the ram is warm (physically), it works just fine.
So, what would you do in my place now? RMA the first stick?
It's not a huge deal but it is an annoyance and I fear it "spreading" to the rest of the stick (I know that that isn't how it works). Because it ran just fine for more than two years.

 

[xentropa]

Usually dying ram on the hardware level has a much more serious error, like bsod, freezing or random reset.

 

That looks more like a corrupted driver.

[krass76]

shouldn't be because I updated the driver about a week ago. before-> same error; after -> same error.
oh, yes, sometimes I also get an IRQL_not_less_or_equal BSOD, mostly after coming off a light load. But I just suspected that that was me pushing my 2600k a tiny bit too hard (4.6GHz at 1.404V).

[krass76]

any other suggestions?