Possible RAM Issues?

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dreamdevils

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So a couple days ago my computer started to freeze up (Monitor loses signal so the light starts to blink along with audio loop) so I tried to troubleshoot it.

I reseated everything thinking something may have come loose since I just cleaned my computer recently. When I started my computer I noticed that I might not have reseated one of the RAM sticks properly but I noticed this AFTER I went the whole day without the monitor losing signal/audio loop.

At first I thought maybe theres something wrong with the RAM that wasn't currently being used so I swapped out the RAM to see if my computer would freeze with just that stick but it isn't happening.

It seems to only happen with both RAM sticks which doesn't really make sense to me. The RAM is currently running at manufacturer settings and I've been using this computer for more or less 2 years now but the problem has only started about 4 days ago.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on why this might be happening?
 
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dreamdevils

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Okay, so after running Memtest on both sticks one at a time, I've noticed that with the RAM that I thought was bad (The one that I swapped between the A1/A2 slots), seemed to have crashed my computer (with the monitor signal lose/audio loop) somewhere between 5-10 hours into memtest.

I ran the other RAM stick (B1/B2) in memtest and that never happened and it was also error-free. So would this mean that the the RAM that I swapped between the A1/A2 slots "IS" bad? since I've tried to run both RAM sticks swapping between the A1B1/A2B2 DIMM slots to make sure that it wasn't just a bad slot and the problem did happen regardless of which slots the sticks were in.
 
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