Could bad ram make some programs fail to install?

[Joony]

ok, i got 2 sticks of PC133 64mb PNY (infineon) and they did not work in a ASUS P2B-F BX board, that dosen't seem right, it worked great on my old Athlon (slot-a, AMD 751 chipset) and now i got a VIA KT133A and stuff like tribes 2 won't install properly (bad files) and win2k (bad files) and some stuff i download (corrupted) is it the ram?

 

[gopunk]

so it worked on one motherboard and not the other? sounds like it'd the mb...

 

[MulLa]

Or sometimes it could be some mb don't like the particular RAM that you are giving it!!

 

[Joony]

dosen't work on the BX system, workes great on my old athlon, kinda works on the KT133A

 

[Joony]

how can it not like my ram!? strange...damn PNY, should get some crucial stuff...

 

[unclebud]

i would like to know if bad memory causes the mie bars and icons to disappear, or is it heat related? tia

 

[MulLa]

When you say it doesn't work on BX system does it mean you tried it on other BX boards or only the one that you have. If the RAM works fine in other system and your BX board works fine with other RAM then you can pretty much say that it's compatibility.

I guess if you only got them recently you can always swap them for other brands.