Burned Ram?

[Flashy11]

So I built a pc for a friend a while ago everything was working fine then one day he tells me that the pc was no longer posting this was after 3 months or so, (he knows very little about computers) so I go and check it out and it turns out the RAM wasnt working so I let him borrow some of mine and it worked like a charm! So I decided to inspect the ram he was using before and it only had menory chips on one side of the stick and discoloration so I was wondering how this may have happened This happened to both 4gb sticks he had

[Kantor]

that is weird as hell could it be water or humidity?

[Flashy11]

could be either honestly he said that he didnt use it for a while and then one day he tried to and it didnt work most likely humidity if its either because he left it in a room that was baking for a day or two I told him that luckily it wasnt the cpu or motherboard

[Kantor]

id pull the CPU and check it that happened to the ram it cant hurt to check and a CPU is way more costly than ram.

 

but then again don't tempt fate

Edited July 31, 2016 by Kantor
additional thoughts

[Kantor]

but then again don't tempt fate