Can a bad RAM slot damage RAM?

[ian.cox.1995]

Recently I started having memory management bsods, so I ran memtest. And wouldn't you know it the RAM in slot 1 produced thousands of errors. (Even when ran in slot 2)
The other RAM stick produced no errors in 2 passes.(In Slot 2)
So I bought some replacement RAM and plugged into slot 1 and ran Memtest. It produced about 20 errors in one pass. So I moved it to slot 2 and it still produced about 20 errors in one pass.
So I have one good stick of RAM but I'm wary of putting it in slot 1 to see if it's a bad slot because everything that's touched slot 1 has gone bad.

Is it possible for a bad slot to damage RAM? Or is my new RAM faulty and I should get it replaced?

 

[jay32267]

It's definitely possible...but "how likely is it?" is the question.

If it is indeed occurring, it is somewhat rare as i don't normally come across this.

...and there really is no way to know for sure without destroying RAM sticks.

So that's how I see this situation.

Here's what I might do....You said you had two sticks of the original RAM...one good....one bad. If you didn't mind taking a chance of losing the good one....I might try that one in there. OR....get some real cheap crappy RAM to try.

You dont' have a lot of options that I can see.

 

[ian.cox.1995]

I think I'm going to try get my new RAM replaced and just assume the slot is broken. (New stick is 8GB old setup was 1x4GB) I was planning on upgrading my whole rig next year anyway.

 

[jay32267]

Not a bad idea. 8GB runs most things no problem.