Not sure where to post this but here goes...

2GB+2GB+2GB+2GB Corsair DDR3 RAM
I pulled out a RAM stick from my motherboard when PC wasnt running and no cable was plugged in AC. I got a very small electric shock from the RAM stick. I put it back in and power up the PC but windows froze when it started to load it, had to do a hard reset. I went to BIOS and it showed 2GB less memory than before.. Did the RAM stick die in that electric shock?

EDIT: after plugging out that same RAM stick windows loaded fine, so I suppose it died?

I can say with almost certainty that you've fried your ram with Electro-static Discharge.

• Remember to always ground yourself and discharge any electrical charge by touching a grounded case.
  
• Never touch the contact points on your electronics.
  
• Some electrical discharges are so small that you can't even feel them but they're enough to damage the circuitry.
  
• Make sure that you're operating in a room with at least 30% humidity
  
  If you're extra paranoid about ESD, you can get a wrist strap and rubber floor mat. Just think of this cost as cheaper than replacing fried hardware.

Always, and I mean always, ground yourself before opening up your pc case and touching any of the components, if you don't want to fry any vital components
You could always check whether one of your RAM slots is malfunctioning, but I say you've probably fried your memory stick...

Yeah I did touch a grounded case but should have been more careful with the contact points. Well, at least I know next time

Yeah I did touch a grounded case but should have been more careful with the contact points. Well, at least I know next time

You said your case wasn't plugged in, so it wouldn't have been grounded.

I have 3 computers, I touched one that was plugged. It works, right?

I have 3 computers, I touched one that was plugged. It works, right?

It should

Maybe because the one you were working on wasn't grounded it had the charge and not you?

Whenever handling ANYTHING inside of a computer, you have to ground yourself with either an ESD band or with the base of the computer case, if it is a conductive metal, not plastic. I apologize to your wallet, but your RAM is fried because of Electro-Static Discharge (ESD).

I tested the "dead RAM" on another computer and it worked fine
I put a brand new RAMs to my motherboard but it froze again on windows load. I figured one of the 4 RAM slots is broken or something, it freezes now always when I have some RAM stick in that slot which I suspect is broken.

It's only few years old motherboard, odd it started malfunctioning so fast or am I just having bad luck? (years ago, when I bought a brand new PC, the power supply was malfunctioning and killed every SATA harddrive. My current PC has different parts though. I've always had bad luck with PC components )

I tested the "dead RAM" on another computer and it worked fine
I put a brand new RAMs to my motherboard but it froze again on windows load. I figured one of the 4 RAM slots is broken or something, it freezes now always when I have some RAM stick in that slot which I suspect is broken.

It's only few years old motherboard, odd it started malfunctioning so fast or am I just having bad luck? (years ago, when I bought a brand new PC, the power supply was malfunctioning and killed every SATA harddrive. My current PC has different parts though. I've always had bad luck with PC components )[/quote]
It didn't malfunction by accident - you touched the RAM stick with your skin, indirectly touching the motherboard. The voltage potential difference between the motherboard and your skin is massive, which caused an electrostatic discharge from your body into the motherboard. Somehow, the RAM stick you touched made it out intact (as it works on a different computer), but as you just found out, you fried one of the RAM slots. My guess is you touched the plastic casing of the RAM which insulated the stick itself from the discharge, but did not protect the motherboard interface which got zapped.

The odds of a motherboard spontaneously failing by itself, independently of you touching it ungrounded and feeling an electric shock are extremely small. So it clearly doesn't seem like bad luck, you just made a mistake and (probably) fried a section of your motherboard. I suppose you could call it bad luck, but it could have been avoided had proper precautions been taken. Not that I'm blaming you, of course, you did make an (unfortunately failed) attempt at grounding. For what it's worth, when I ground myself I never touch the case itself, but always the metal top of the (plugged in) PSU.

You should consider yourself lucky you didn't fry anything else. Touching the motherboard without being properly grounded can very well destroy every single one of your components without you even realizing it until you attempt to power it on again. If there is one lesson to learn from all this, it is that you MUST ground yourself every time you touch a computer component. There is a reason they come in little static-proof plastic bags.

At least it's just a RAM slot, it could have been a lot worse (so you can probably sort of ignore the issue until you upgrade).