ruined ram because of a shock?

[uhntissbaby111]

Ok, so i was doing a flight tonight in microsoft FSX, and during that flight, i went up to the computer to check up on the progress. and one time i got up and went to touch my joystick and i shocked it with my finger. the joystick lights flickered off then back on, and the sim paused for a few seconds and then it went back to normal. i got up again a few minutes later, and it shocked again, same deal, lights went off for a second then back on, and the sim paused and then went back to normal. everything was fine, until like half an hour later when my sim crashed. i got a message from vista saying that the program stopped working. i was bummed out, but oh well, what can you do. but then like 2 minutes after the crash, i got a blue screen that said some problem and the computer restarted. upon restart, right when i am about to get to my desktop, same blue screen. i cant read it all because it restarts, but it says something about memory. so i tried a few more times, and all the same. then i restarted in safe mode and i am able to run the system. while in safe mode, i went to my control panel and went to the systems tab, and in memory, it says i only have 4gb of RAM, i should have 6. then i pressed ctr alt del, and looked at the performance tab, and it is showing 4gb of ram. so my theory is that maybe my shock killed one of my sticks of ram? i have 3 sticks, 2 gb each. is that possible? what i did was remove one stick at a time until the computer started normally and i figured out which module is the dead one, so now i have 2 sticks in. im so frustrated, i have had this computer for a little over a week and now this. is it possible that the shock killed one of the sticks? or is it just a coincidence? i did get an OOM with FSX a few days before, when i shouldnt have gotten one with 6gb of ram, so maybe it was faulty already? the ram is ocz gold, ddr3 1600, and i havent overclocked yet, everything is stock. and now im worried that maybe i fried something else and dont know about it yet. any help would be greatly appreciated


adam

 

[Elixer]

Yes, static electricity can kill components.

Get memtest, and run it overnight, and see if you have 0 errors.
For CPU, you can get OCCT or run prime95 on each core, and let that run for 4-5 hours. Should have 0 errors as well.

 

[eternalone]

I have killed a hardrive with static electricty before I just touched the case by accident once and boom wierd errors etc turns out that little static decided to travel to my hardrive and zap it dead. It would still turn on but just acted funny and BSOD's and weird windows errors. That was a long time ago, needless to say now adays, no matter what, I discharge before touching the comp period.