can a bad ram damage hard disk/motherboard??

[Adityadeb]

I have two 2gb memory sticks from an unbranded company (qumem) .. One of them recently got damaged and gave repeated bsod. So i removed it and the other stick works fine but i am afraid that one day the good one might get damaged as well and may permanently damage my hard disk too..! Is it possible for a ram to physically damage hard disk or cause any problem that cannot be solved by formatting it? .. Can it damage the motherboard either? or i am just getting paranoid?

 

[BrandonYoung]

Paranoia. Bad ram will not permanently damage hardware.

However, bad ram can cause corrupted data transfers. If you are transferring family photos (non replaceable data) about, I would invest into some new functional ram.

 

[Adityadeb]

Yes that damaged ram is still in warranty period and I'm gonna get it replaced soon. Thanks fr d answr

 

[BrandonYoung]

Best of luck to you!