My mid2012 non-retina 13" MacBook Pro freezes constantly

For a few days now, my MacBook Pro has been freezing every 10-30 seconds for about 10 seconds each time. It shows the spinning pinwheel, but I am able to swich desktops and use Mission Control. Every app I enter during the "freeze" will also freeze.
I tried reinstalling OS X 10.8 using recovery at boot. It took 20 hours to reinstall (took one hour to switch from 16 minutes remaining to 14 minutes remaining), end when it rebooted it had not been installed - my old user and all my stuff was still there. Very weird!
It takes about 10 minutes to boot in recovery, and even then the spinning pinwheel shows up all the time and i have to wait to even enter a menu.
There are no issues with my harddrive when I verify it in Disk Utility or in recovery mode Disk Utility. I have tried searching on the internet, but no issues have been similar to the one I am experiencing...
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 (1x8GB module, the other slot was suddenly defect, so I had to remove it)
500GB 5400rpm HDD (with 250GB free space)
OS X 10.8.3 (12D78)
Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks.

Since you installed the ram yourself, where did you get the ram?  You also say the one slot became defective, instead of just removing the ram from that slot, move the ram still showing good to the defective slot.  Will the MBP run in that configuration?
Can you replace the original ram and see if the MBP starts properly?
Installing ram will not void your warranty unless you damage something in the process.  So the first task is to determine if the slot you say is bad is truely bad then determine if the ram is faulty.

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