Yes it is possible that one runs and other does not. This malfunction of ram probably has nothing to do with software ....
It dies by itself mostly. Software usually crashes because of faulty ram.
Try to clean your ram (contacts on ram) with pencil rubber and try to put it back in your computer ( take out working ram and put only ''malfunctioned'' ram in alone) . Try if it starts os.... if still beeps then trow it in trash...
Hope this helps......
I have two 1GB Kingston RAM installed in my PC. Lately, I installed Roxio Streamer and I found it crashed with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. I immediately uninstall Roxio, but one of my RAM became bad and preventing the system from booting. I heard a long beep. It is possible that one of the RAM turns bad, while another one still functioning? Will software crash affect the RAM?

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