I dont know about the ripping issues, but if you think that you have been having problems with your ram, download and run a ram checking tool. I have used <a href=http://www.memtest86.com/">this one</a> before and it seems to work pretty well--it found an error in one of my sticks a while back that once replaced, fixed all the screwy problems I had been having.
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