FPS dropping a lot and pc is freezing up

[chazus]

Is there another user listed further down?

[Pandragon]

Is there another user listed further down?

No. Thats the only user account.

[chazus]

Well... There's certainly an issue with the RAM.. or something running. its hard to tell... The fact that it sometimes wouldnt boot or post, and now that, makes it sound like maybe a stick is bad? Can you try running your system with only one stick at a time and checking memory usage?

[Pandragon]

Well... There's certainly an issue with the RAM.. or something running. its hard to tell... The fact that it sometimes wouldnt boot or post, and now that, makes it sound like maybe a stick is bad? Can you try running your system with only one stick at a time and checking memory usage?

I have 4 ram slots. my 2 cards were in slots 2 and 3(counting from back of pc to front), I took out slot 2 and started it. Ram looked fine

http://imgur.com/NicjZmO

I then took out the card I left in slot 3, and as I went to put the other card in I got the idea to place it into slot 3 instead of back into slot 2. Came up with an identical result as the other card in that pic ^

When I placed the second card back in, I put it into slot 4 instead of back into slot 2 and here is the result

http://imgur.com/IXjifh1

Could the slot for the RAM be what was screwing up?

[chazus]

Those shots look normal.. I'm a bit curious why memory isn't maxing out like before in those shots.

[Pandragon]

Those shots look normal.. I'm a bit curious why memory isn't maxing out like before in those shots.

I left my pc running while I slept. Woke up and it's still perfectly fine. Before if I left it while lseeping i'd wake up and it would be frozen and I would have to restart it. RAM usage is around 15% right now.