Bad ram stick, should I now reinstall?

[Engineer]

My new Xeon E1230-V2 has been acting strange lately (sluggish, few apps crashing and finally, the dreaded BSOD). I thought it was a driver initially so I traced through what I could.

Finally ran Memtest86+ and found that one (or both) of my Patriot sticks were bad. Confirmed this in another PC.

Since it was most likely bad at the start, should I reinstall everything at this point? The memtest program stated that the issue was around the 26-28GB mark of ram and I'm not sure that Windows installer uses anywhere near that when doing an initial install.

What do you guys think?

(Probably should have placed this in the OS forum?)

 

[Dadofamunky]

No - just install new RAM. I think it's fine. You have WHAT? 16GB sticks or something?

 

[Engineer]

No - just install new RAM. I think it's fine. You have WHAT? 16GB sticks or something?

It was 2 - 8GB sticks of Patriot G2. I have already requested warranty service. The ram was run at SPD settings at 1.5V. Raising the voltage or lowering the speed did not correct the error.

Since Firefox was crashing (severely), I already uninstalled and reinstalled it. I'll monitor for more BSOD's (running on backup ram right now).