On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:37:37 -0600, rbowman
wrote:

On 04/15/2017 06:06 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
It beckons , it does ! After a week or more of fighting Win7 to run and be
stable on not one but two completely (or nearly so) newly built computers I
installed Mint on the newest (all new but the case and cpu) of them .
Multiple crashes , blue screens and shut downs , and finally that comp
wouldn't boot at all . It shouldn't be this hard to install and update an OS

http://www.memtest86.com/

I'd run memtest from a USB drive and let it beat on the memory for a
while. Also, are the BIOS settings correct for the RAM?

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/under...g-ram-timings/

.... and, ensure the RAM is in matched pairs. Mismatched RAM pairs can
be an issue.