- Jan 4, 2005
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Man, my Intel system in the sig below, running Vista 64-bit, had overnight 12-hour Orthos stability with an 800 MHz overclock. Then, I did Microsoft's comprehensive updates for Vista 64 (this is a new installation and the updates are quite necessary) and bammo, Orthos crashes the system to a blue screen. I have never seen this before on any system. Jeez, I hope SP1 comes out soon. (That might not help.)
FWIW, 3DMark runs fine. In fact, everything else I've run to test system load or graphics performance runs great. I consider this a good sign. Tomorrow I'm going to try running two copies of the old Prime 95 program to see if the same behavior ensues. I am not optimistic.
The system seems to be rock solid except that I can't run Orthos on Vista 64-bit. Disappointing, but I don't think it's the end of the world. It DOES mean that my overclocking efforts in Vista 64 are probably at an end for quite awhile. My CPU never got above 45C under full load, and normally, even with the OC, runs at about 22-23C. Yeah, it's not an e8400/8500, but this thing will do just fine for now and it's a no-brainer upgrade.
So I'm wondering if anybody has any thought on this, or if they've seen this themselves, or ESPECIALLY if there are any other useful load testing programs I can try. I may give Memtest a try.
FWIW, 3DMark runs fine. In fact, everything else I've run to test system load or graphics performance runs great. I consider this a good sign. Tomorrow I'm going to try running two copies of the old Prime 95 program to see if the same behavior ensues. I am not optimistic.
The system seems to be rock solid except that I can't run Orthos on Vista 64-bit. Disappointing, but I don't think it's the end of the world. It DOES mean that my overclocking efforts in Vista 64 are probably at an end for quite awhile. My CPU never got above 45C under full load, and normally, even with the OC, runs at about 22-23C. Yeah, it's not an e8400/8500, but this thing will do just fine for now and it's a no-brainer upgrade.
So I'm wondering if anybody has any thought on this, or if they've seen this themselves, or ESPECIALLY if there are any other useful load testing programs I can try. I may give Memtest a try.