Hello, Since long time already, we are told, when assembling PC and where motherboard has 4 RAM slots, that we should insert first pair of RAM into 2nd and 4th RAM slot first (or other two assigned RAM slots) and only after that, if we get 2nd pair we should put it into 1st and 3rd slot. This is the most likely cause behind a damaged RAM. It is also possible that the memory module is fine, but one or more memory slots on your motherboard are defective, hindering the RAM's performance. The defect may even be so bad that it damages the memory stick.

I have been meaning to post this for a while, here goes finally.
I have a lot of system building experience, and generally held the belief that bad RAM slots on motherboards are uncommon. The first one I encountered was a couple of years ago - I opened up a brand new ITX celeron board and I eventually discovered that one of the RAM slots was bad. The motherboard wouldn't boot with any RAM installed in one of the two RAM slots on the motherboard - remove RAM from that slot, and the system booted fine with RAM in the other slot only. (Of course I had been storing the board for long enough that it was out of warranty, but that's another story...) I suspected a bad solder joint or tin whisker somewhere on the bad RAM slot, but my soldering iron was misplaced a while ago, and a visual inspection of the underside of the board looked OK.
I have been testing more boards than I used to over the past year, and I have found a number of other boards which have bad RAM slots, so I was wondering how many bad RAM slots others here have run into on otherwise good motherboards.
Also, has anyone ever successfully fixed a bad RAM slot, say with a solder reflow?
So far, in terms of failure modes with bad RAM slots, either any RAM in that slot is not recognized and ignored, or else the system won't boot with any RAM in that slot, either locking up during POST or black screen before POST, sometimes with beeps. Any time I have had memtest rack up errors, I have eventually traced it to an actual bad stick of RAM, but has anyone else noticed bad RAM slots causing other symptoms?
On dual processor Xeon boards I have further findings:

Bad Ram Slot Fix

• If the blue (primary) RAM slot in a channel is bad, that whole channel is unusable
• If the first blue slot for a CPU is bad, that CPU socket is unusable
• If a non-blue slot is bad, usually only that slot is bad

Broken Ram Slot Macbook Pro

Does anyone else have any experiences to add?