[daniel1212]

No, even when i booted into Linus it was inconsistent, and now it runs fine. I did not touch the memory after swapping them out to no avail.

[Wayne07]

I was assuming your linux was on a partition on the same drive as your windows install (or a second drive, but same ide controller ).

By booting linux from a usb stick, you can avoid any problem that your drive might be having, and safely run diagnostics on it.