Hardware Issues?

[Keith Conception]

Does your cpu have a fan on the heatsink? If so then removing the side shouldn't make a difference.
Just make sure the fan is running properly.
As for the ram, I've had problems where 2 (sticks) would cause problems but by themselves would work fine.
You might what to try just one ram.

Keith
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