Just Dropped A RAM Inside Plastic Casing - Is it Dead?
I just dropped some laptop-sized RAM while it was in it's plastic wrapping onto my keyboard of my laptop. What's the chances of it failing because of this drop? If the RAM fails, would the failure spread to my CPU and my graphics card in my laptop?
The height dropped was roughly 25 centimetres.
The odds of failure are negligible - I would feel comfortable juggling these things barehanded. If I could juggle, anyway.
Even if it has failed, the odds of it damaging any other components are also negligible (more likely the machine just wouldn't boot).
I wouldn't worry too much. If you are paranoid, pop it in a computer, and boot one of the live CD versions of memtest (you can also find it on a lot of live Linux disks).
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
Just run it all night, and see if it has errors in the morning. If not, paranoia gone!