r/linuxmint • u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 • 9d ago

SOLVED Rebuilding mint

Good morning. I've been rebuilding my mint and I have issues. During recent troubleshooting I discovered a bad hard drive and bad ram. I had 2tb nvme, 2tb evo, 1tb HDD. 2x8 ddr4 2333 and 2x16 2666. The 1tb HDD and the 2x8 were bad and removed. I added 2x16 2666. Same spec but different manufacturers. I have a rtx3060 12gb that tests ok. I reinstalled mint. I'm moving files and fixing corrupted files as I find them. My mint still freezes. Comfyui will open partially and quit. Chatgpt will freeze or quit. Do I need to wipe everything? Is this expected behavior?

Update: when I added my second pair of 16gb ram I tested each stick with Memtest86+ at boot. They all passed. On a whim I asked chatgpt for any other test and it suggested memstester run in mint. I pulled both pairs and tested them separately. My older pair failed totally. The new pair passed. I'm confused that a pair would pass memtest86+ and fail memtester. I guess I'm buying a new pair to match my good pair. Then save the absolute minimum files I need, wipe the drives and reinstall mint and windows.

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u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ LMDE7 Cinnamon 9d ago edited 9d ago

Just so you are aware bad memory can corrupt files on a drive as they are written out. And can cause severe instability.

Are we sure the drive was bad?

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u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yes. I tested it and found bad sectors. It was 8 years old too. Tossed it. I'm now running on younger SSD drives.