Possible bad RAM slots.

ohiowindsurfer

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I had cleaned my computer,because my CPU was reaching temperatures above 70C so I cleaned it and after seem to maybe have damaged a slot or two.. basically the problems I am having are:

1. All ram chips work however when I use one that I previously used in slot 1 into slot 3 I get an error. f3 and f5 or f6.. can't remember then errorb code 68.

2. I am experiencing random freezes now when I try to load programs such as steam and it will eventually freeze my whole system requiring a full rebooot.b

3. Operating system seems to boot slower than before cleaning, but that may because I dropped to 2 gb from 6? However if I try to open anything when my whole system will freeze.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
 

ohiowindsurfer

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For the third problem if I open a program or window while the startup programs are loading then windows will freeze, if I wait then it will be fine.. at the moment watching a movie.. but had a problem when my brother reset our router my video hung for a second before resuming
 

ohiowindsurfer

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Okay it froze again, can not click anything in windows but mouse still moves and I'm in Skype call still and he can hear me and vise versa.. I tried running a game to see if directx could load.. any tests I can run to see if hardware? I know memtest86+ but ill try that tomorrow when I have more time to see if bad RAM.

Oh and I tried to run windows task manager first to shut down some programs I have running and it froze when trying to shut one down, which,it did but the task manager still froze then later the rest of the system minus Skype call and mouse.