hmm... is this worth it?

[hans007]

I've quietly cracked 107000 blocks under the team anandtech moniker. My k7-800 and sometimes when its on my brothers p3-800 are under my name, but the other day my k7-800 started doing wierd unknown errors in win2k, like memory not read or something. It hasn't don that in a while, but i dont know if maybe the wear of having my CPU at full load for so long is good. I've had this computer on pretty much 24/7 since august and well i guess i'll keep cracking since CPUs are cheap. But does cracking ever make your systems unstable? Also i'm not even overclocked and it always at 50C. I dont know, anyone else had a unknown error, memory not readable error in win2k?

 

[imhotepmp]

I had that same problem and couldnt figure out what it was. I get those errors whenever certain program like AIM and gnutella tried to access the net. I couldnt fix it so I did a full reinstall and it works fine. So it cant be RC5 since I ran it before and after.

I think I narrowed it down to a few causes:
- I messed around with the services a whileback(trying to decrease all of the overhead of win2k) and maybe i disabled a service that I shouldnt have
- I had installed Apache Web server as well as some other web server apps. maybe caused some changes to network services?

Mind you these are shots in the dark, but just some ideas to go off on because I seriouslt doubt that rc5 would cause this. Even so try to turn off and see if you get the same error.

hope this helps somewhat

imhotep(MP)

 

[ViRGE]

You can try shutting off the client to see if that helps, but it's highly unlikely that that's the problem. As imhotepmp said, it's more likely that something screwed up your Windows installation.🙁

 

[JHutch]

I've seen similar problems with a corrupted spot on the hard drive. Especially if the corruption is in the swap file. I've also seen it if the registry is just getting so bloated that it's impossible to make heads or tails of anything in it.

Running scandisk on the HD is the first thing I would suggest. Second, reinstall Windows. I usually have to reinstall my main box (which gets pounded with all sorts of crazy things that I download or try) about once or twice a year...

JHutch

 

[hans007]

i only got it once, though. That was when i hadn't rebooted in a couple days. Hasn't happened again even though i still have rc5 on. I redid my heatsink paste in that time though so maybe... Anyways i think its fixed hopefully,. i had just reformatted 2 weeks before so i dont think its that.