PC froze, then boot loop, then 5 beeps (1sec long each), then wouldn't turn on and now does but still freezes, plz help me :(

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So I just built this PC about a month or so. These are the specs:
CPU: Intel Pentium 3.50 GHz Dual-Core LGA 1151 (G4560)
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5
HDD: WD - Blue 1TB Internal SATA Hard Drive (windows 10)
Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-B250M-DS3H LGA1151 Intel Micro ATX DDR4
RAM: Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Single DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200)
PSU: EVGA B1, 80+ BRONZE 450W

About 2 or 3 weeks into the PC, it froze once or twice while working on software that I use for my job (ArcGIS). Everything stayed fine and normal.

Fast forward to yesterday and here is what happened:

It froze, so I had to hold the front button on the tower the turn it off, it did.
-Turned it back on, and instead it would power on for 1 second, then off, then on, then off, then on, then off
-Then it would turn on and the FANS would be REVING. They would spool up fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, then fast, then slow, then it beeped 5, 1 second long beeps and then it would shut down. Then it turns on again and the cycle of fan reving, 5 beeps, shuts down, turns on - repeat.

What I did was just jiggle stuff around cuz I read that it has something to do with the Ram stick being inserted incorrectly idk but it seemed to work.

Today it happened again.
I was working on that software and the exact same thing that happened yesterday, it repeated today.
All the crazy turning off and on, reving of the fan(s), 5 beeps. jiggle stuff around and it was fixed for about 30 mins.

but then.....it froze, i turned it off, when i tried to turn it on the same thing would happen except instead of 5 beeps it was 6, 1 second long beeps. I juggled stuff around and it didn't seem to work as easily. I had to juggle stuff around and then tried waiting some time before i tried starting it up again. It seemed to work, except now the problem I have is it freezes. I'll be doing any random task (using the work software and even tried to queue up for 1 league of legends match) and it freezes.

The thing this time is I can turn it on and it boots without a hiccup, however it has frozen 3x since the last time it was going in a boot loop.

What should I do?

is the the processor? thermal paste? bad ram stick? bad Motherboard? :( thank you for reading :)

BTW: I've had 2 blue screens also, 1 yesterday and 1 today. Here are the 2 codes

1 (yesterday) DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
*i have no clue what that means, and looking it up didn't help me either*

2 (today): SYSTEM_THREAD+EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
nvlddmkm.sys
* I looked this one up and I guess it was a software issue that I had to uninstall and re download to fix*

Thank you!


Following day after I posted this: the computer turned on like normal and stayed on for about 4 hours before it froze. Then the revving of the fans started followed by 5 beeps and a sudden shut down before repeating the loop endlessly.

I moved stuff again (Reinstalled the cpu and moved around the ram stick), and it turns on. It does the 1 beep to reaffirm me that everything is loading correctly. Soon after that beep, the GPU fan stops spinning, and as it loads either freezes at the first loading image (motherboard picture during loading) or it freezes at the windows 10 log in screen.
 
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I ended up trying Windows Memory Diagnostic tool just in case it was the memory RAM. It kept freezing at random spots in the diagnostic sequence.
I tried Memtest86 and it would also freeze at random parts of the test. So my hunch was the RAM to be the problem...but before I did I had to rule out the other pieces.

I ended up returning and buying a new motherboard (MSI b250 bazooka), and thought the problem was fixed but NOPE. Same issue. This time it would just freeze up at RANDOM times. POST freezing, Log in freezing, freezing while web surfing, freezing while watching movie, freezing while playing a quick game of league. So i figured the motherboard was fine because it's new, so it must be another piece that's messing with it...

beysik

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I ended up trying Windows Memory Diagnostic tool just in case it was the memory RAM. It kept freezing at random spots in the diagnostic sequence.
I tried Memtest86 and it would also freeze at random parts of the test. So my hunch was the RAM to be the problem...but before I did I had to rule out the other pieces.

I ended up returning and buying a new motherboard (MSI b250 bazooka), and thought the problem was fixed but NOPE. Same issue. This time it would just freeze up at RANDOM times. POST freezing, Log in freezing, freezing while web surfing, freezing while watching movie, freezing while playing a quick game of league. So i figured the motherboard was fine because it's new, so it must be another piece that's messing with it.
So after regulating every piece, I concluded:
I ruled out the GPU because I tracked it's health/stats and everything was fine (including uninstalling and reinstalling the Nvidia drivers).
I ruled out the motherboard because I returned it and bought MSI B250 Bazooka so I doubt that'd be broken.
I ruled out the CPU because the types of crashes didn't indicate the CPU (most CPU issues revolve around not turning on and stuff like that..mine still turned on and worked and worked 100% when it wasn't freezing).
I ruled out the HDD because when it froze/crashed and I would turn it off, the "View Reliability History" would have it recorded that I turned off the computer wrong (pretty much, if the cpu crashed/HDD crashed/motherboard crashed, I don't think it would record it, would it? that was my reasoning).
I ruled out overheating because again, even though it had symptoms of overheating, other parts of the problem didn't lead up to it 100%. So it left the RAM sticks.

I returned the one I had and bought 2, 4GB sticks and now the problem is gone. 100% fixed.

Thanks to myself for solving this.

TL:DR
Replaced the RAM.
 
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