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Try removing your ram and blowing out the slots with compressed air (can be purchased on Amazon), than carefully clean your ram's connectors with 90% isopropyl alcohol  and let it sit for a couple hours to dry. Then put the ram back in. If that doesn't work, you are pretty much out of luck. 

So i was swaping hard drives when i unplugged the pc i did not notice it was in sleep so i booted up and i was able to use it for a bit before i got a critical ram error and bluescreen i then remember i turned on the computer 2 weeks ago and never turned it off is there a way to fix the ram or is it just dead i dont really care if its dead i just wanna know if it is possible to fix

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Unplugging the RAM while it's in use is pretty bad, but I don't think it has the possibility to ruin the RAM.

 

Try it in a different PC and run memtest 86.

 

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4 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Unplugging the RAM while it's in use is pretty bad, but I don't think it has the possibility to ruin the RAM.

 

Try it in a different PC and run memtest 86.

 

It wasnt unplugged whule running it had old data from the old os which was never turned off and i didny notice until i switched drives

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Just now, youtuber1744 said:

It wasnt unplugged whule running it had old data from the old os which was never turned off and i didny notice until i switched drives

OS data isn't stored on your RAM, it's stored on your HDD.

 

What exactly did you remove, and what state was the system in?

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Try removing your ram and blowing out the slots with compressed air (can be purchased on Amazon), than carefully clean your ram's connectors with 90% isopropyl alcohol  and let it sit for a couple hours to dry. Then put the ram back in. If that doesn't work, you are pretty much out of luck. 

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20 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

OS data isn't stored on your RAM, it's stored on your HDD.

 

What exactly did you remove, and what state was the system in?

 What i mean is the system was in sleep when i unplugged instead of off so it had all the tabs and whatever was open still there

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Just now, youtuber1744 said:

 What i mean is the system was in sleep when i unplugged instead of off so it had all the tabs and whatever was open still there

I guess so, but that's more program data than OS data.

 

anyway, I'd suggest a re-install of windows, and see if that works. if not, try it on a different system, and if that doesn't work, you have some dead RAM.

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