[SOLVED] RAM went bad?

[sukiyakitrash]

Hello there, recently(for the past 24h) I started to get non-stop BSOD. I could start windows and everything, normal, but when I open my browser(Firefox) it started to crash multiple times, sometimes it will let me browse a little but as soon as I started to watch a video on youtube I'd get an error from firefox telling me to refresh the page, constantly, until it crashes/BSOD, also opening fortnite or the epic games launcher would cause this cycle of crashes/BSOD. BSOD errors mostly were MEMORY MANAGEMENT, but I also got PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA between many others(Around 4) I can't remember. Those two where the most frequent ones.
The thing is, I bought my PC 1 month and 4 days ago. So I was sure it was a windows thing, maybe a bad configuration or whatever, I ran multiples SFC scans and DISM restores, everything seemed solved but after 30min of browsing... BSOD. I'm really mad at this point so I decide to just wipe everything on my disk and install windows from 0. Everything goes well, I deleted windows through the BIOS(SSD Secure Delete or something) and now around 60% of installing windows again I get an error again and the installation stops. I'm confused so I turn everything off and change my RAM stick(1x8GB) to another slot, still got the error, tried every slot. I proceed to download memtest86 on my brother's PC to test mine and got +10k errors which I guess it means my RAM is gone but I'd like a second opinion on this, maybe I did something wrong somewhere. Only software recently installed was Kerbal Space Program(Running everything on max) which I don't think it could've harm my hardware. I'm really sad and angry, could it be that in 1 month my RAM died? Did I do something wrong?

PC specs:
-ASRock z390 phantom gaming sli/ac
-Intel i5-9400F
-MSI Ventus RTX 2060 6GB
-1x8GB DDR4 2666Mhz Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Red

 

[PC Tailor]

Welcome to the forums my friend!

I proceed to download memtest86 on my brother's PC to test mine and got +10k errors which I guess it means my RAM is *** up

(Please remove the swear word, younger people and parents can visit these forums!)

Either way, even a SINGLE memtest error indicates RAM that needs changing.
You likely didn't do anything wrong, if you OC poorly, it can cause problems.
But just replace the module, 1 error indicates faulty RAM, let alone thousands!

 

[sukiyakitrash]

Welcome to the forums my friend!


(Please remove the swear word, younger people and parents can visit these forums!)

Thank you, edited.

Either way, even a SINGLE memtest error indicates RAM that needs changing.
You likely didn't do anything wrong, if you OC poorly, it can cause problems.
But just replace the module, 1 error indicates faulty RAM, let alone thousands!

Sadly I didn't even OCed it, since I can't overclock my CPU I left the RAM alone too(Everything set to default or "Auto" on the BIOS).
I'm heading to my friend's house, to test my module on his computer.
I just want to be 200% sure it's only my RAM before buying a new one and have that gone wrong again.

 

[PC Tailor]

Thank you, edited.

Sadly I didn't even OCed it, since I can't overclock my CPU I left the RAM alone too(Everything set to default or "Auto" on the BIOS).
I'm heading to my friend's house, to test my module on his computer.
I just want to be 200% sure it's only my RAM before buying a new one and have that gone wrong again.

Thank you for removing!

Feel free. But I assure you, a MEMTEST that has even 1 error on it, is Memory that needs replacing.

 

[sukiyakitrash]

Thank you for removing!

Feel free. But I assure you, a MEMTEST that has even 1 error on it, is Memory that needs replacing.

Tested my module on another PC and it is indeed faulty, tested another module on my PC and it had no errors. I guess everything else is good(I was affraid that it was a compatibility issue that broke my module), thank you for your responses. I'll have to buy a new RAM.