Could cheap ram have damaged my hd?

I've recently had an issue with my mac pro which may have highlighted an issue which has been there for a while and I'm looking for some advice.
Around a year ago I upgraded a few HDs and the ram in my 2007 mac pro [xeon quad-3.0ghz]
I bought an OCZ Vertex SSD for the system drive and when I first installed 10.6 on to it, it would boot super fast. At the same time I also ordered 8gb [2x4gb sticks] of cheap ram from eBay.
I never really saw a performance increase with the ram but I just put it down to always having a well maintained system anyway.
Quite soon after, I noticed that on startup the computer would hang on a grey screen for a while before flashing the "question mark on folder" for a second and then straight to the grey apple but boot within seconds. I had seen this happen before with networked machines [which mine are] and put it down to that.
However, recently my machine stopped booting altogether and would hang but then go to the flashing "question mark on folder" and stay there.
I tried a number of things including swapping drive bays and cleaning any dust from the inside of the machine but didn't have any luck until I went back to my using the 1gb of ram I got with the machine. The machine then booted with no problem.
This has obviously made me realise I need to invest in some decent ram but I'm finding that even now, the machine is hanging on the grey screen before booting.
So if it is down to the ram. Could it have had a lasting effect on the machine?
I'm thinking it will be worth doing a reinstall on the disk but before I go through all that I wanted to get other peoples opinion.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance

Maybe your problem has nothing to do with ram. So some questions/experiments...
1. Did you run DU verify/repair on all your mounted drives?
2. Did you check your Startup Disk system preferences that the boot drive is explicitly specified? If not, when you boot, the system will search around for the boot drive until it finds it. During that search it will display the flashing question mark. Of course that will continue if it never finds a valid boot disk.
3. If you disconnect all unneeded periphials (disk, firewires, usb's) would it boot?
4. What would happen if you back up your SSD to a HDD (should have backups anyway), remove the SSD, and boot from the HDD backup? Maybe the SSD is getting "flaky". Use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to clone a boot drive.
5. What happens if you boot in safe mode?

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