I have been trying to get mint to install correctly on my system for the last couple days. After much messing around, trying different drives (new flash drive, new nvme) and stuff, I finally ran memtest and I’m getting lots of errors on both sticks, tested individually. It’s 2x16 ddr4 3600; I lowered it to 1600 and still get lots of errors, ordered a new pair.
Here’s my question - I have win10 on a separate drive. It boots fine and doesn’t seem to have an issue with the ram at all. Is Linux more sensitive to memory problems?
And memtest was booted off usb, not run in Linux or anything weird?
That’s really odd. I’d definitely expect windows to crash, and it seems odd that it wouldn’t if both your sticks are failing when running on their own.
I wonder if you actually have a mobo / CPU issue that windows can handle. Getting new ram seems like the logical next step though.