bizarre!! computer behaviour.....possibly.

[IOU0]

My ageing fujitsu has had a couple of hissy fits lately.
Firstly woulnt recognise drive c, then no bios boot.
So i stared at it, tapped the top of the tower, as you do, nothing.
Pulled all the leads from the MB and got a blower in, nothing.
Pulled all the ram, and just replaced 1. Bingo.
Put the rest in 1 by 1 and all is well again.
Is this a sign of impending doom, or just normal computer behaviour these days?

[KungFooBob]

I was once told that ram with connectors made of a different material to those in the sockets, with the small amount of current passing through them can over very long periods develop some corrosion... and reseating them scrapes it off.

[Mussels]

Yes, back in the day when I did desktop support reseating the RAM was about the first thing to try when a computer suddenly stopped booting up.