How to find out if your RAM is defective

Kleyou asked the Answer Line forum for advice about a misbehaving computer that likely has memory issues. Defective RAM can cause all sorts of problems. If you're suffering from frequent crashes, freezes, reboots, or Blue Screens of Death, a bad RAM chip could be the cause of your travails. If these annoyances tend to happen when you're using a memory-intensive application or game, bad RAM is a very likely culprit. But that doesn't mean it's a sure one. You still need to make sure that the probl...