Midori hangs, Numlock, Capslock led blinks, reboots

[hakerdefo]

Mate as i said earlier your HDD is the most likely culprit! You will likely experience the same problems with any distro you gonna install on that HDD

[san2ban]

Thank you all guys.

Salix OS stands exonerated. HDD appears defective. Simply wasted my money on the RAM. Will replace HDD and reload again

[hakerdefo]

I hate to say it, it's hard to say it but "I told you so right at the beginning." Anyways exchange those RAM modules at the same store for a new hdd. May be a thousand bucks+RAM might get you a 500 GB HDD. And go ahead and install Salix on new HDD without any fear. It's stable, fast and best XFCE distro around. Cheers!!!

[mimosa]

The RAM was a strong possibility but you hadn't pinned it to the RAM when you ordered replacement RAM. These intermittent, inconsistent errors are hard to diagnose, and I can understand why you went with a hunch before you'd nailed it.

What I take away from this story is Thenktor's advice: to get a meaningful negative result from memtest (so it is reasonable to give your RAM a clean bill of health) run the test for several hours. That's presumably what would have happened in your case.

It's irrelevant to your situation, but RAM faults can be due to a bad connection with the socket. Remove your RAM (taking precautions against static as appropriate), clean the metal part that goes into the socket with a rubber, and replace - making sure the card goes right back in. It's fixed problems for me here a few times.