So after my computer seemed to be apparently stable for a few days I didnt think it was a hardware issue, but rather a software. Updated the bios and everything seemed to work...installed windows, great! Then moved on to install drivers and programs...great! disk defrag....BSOD.

So I decided to run memtest just to double check my ram was good (did a 12 hour memtest loop few days ago seemed to be fine), and it turns out one stick was bad.

However, can one stick go that bad (over 400 erros in < 1 min) over the course of a few days?? 12 hour memtest should have stressed it enough to produce something...I have my bios set to 2.2V, a few posts up say that the actual voltage is higher...so if thats the truth then my RAM modules were running over 2.2V and might explain this...any thoughts?