Are my RAM Slots on my MOBO causing my BSOD's?

Tristan173D

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My computer currently will not start up. About a year ago I've been getting Blue Screens of Death (BSOD) and I messed around and finally out two Ram sticks in slot 2 and 4. That worked until recently. I've been getting BSOD's again. I was assuming it was my Graphics card because for some reason only the beta version of the driver for the graphics card would work, or else it would give me a bsod while installing the driver. The dump in the windows file also said it was caused by my graphics card. My computer won't even boot right now and when it does it freezes or bsod. So I changed it to my integrated graphics card and that didn't work. So I removed my ram stick from the second slot and that worked. It booted up, but then I had errors and such with my integrated graphics so I changed it back to the other one and it bsod on me now it won't boot up on either graphics card or where I put my ram in. Any ideas what I can do or what the problem is? Thank you!
 

Poprin

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You could run memtest86 at bootup, you can download it from the web and it will run from a bootable CD or USB. You can put one stick of RAM in at a time in each slot and it will test each one for errors. If you get no errors, it sounds to me like you either have a problem with your power supply, motherboard or CPU in that order. As in the most likely culprits in decending order.