Ram failure happens, but is rare.  Unless you spend some time inside your
computer-- installing new hardware or what not.  You may have accident
brushed up against,without
knowledge against that stick, and static electrity got a hold of that one.
But I wound believe that
stick was just a bad one--doomed to fail sooner rather than much much later.

I have gotten MGV in the past and they're fairly reliable
for what I've gotten.  Since yours is a Compaq, I would have figured you'd
have to get RAM
designed for it.


--Patrick Black
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~black27/
>
> I am left with wondering if RAM failure is an
> ongoing thing or was I very unlucky or is MGV
> brand something to stay away from?

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