Oh, crap. Fatal Prime 95 error. Bad CPU?

[sean2002]

I keep getting a fatal Prime 95 error. Always at the same time and same error. it's a fatal error reading from temp file @ 9 minutes and 1 second. Is this a hardware problem?

 

[ledzepp98]

if it's with the rig in your sig, try running it at default speeds and see if you still get the error

 

[sean2002]

Originally posted by: ledzepp98
if it's with the rig in your sig, try running it at default speeds and see if you still get the error

THis is my new P4 rig thats not in my sig yet

 

[Booster]

Why don't you mention your new system specs and whether the CPU is OCed or not? If it's OCed, well, it's obvious that you need to bring down the OC, up the Vcore, enhance cooling etc. If it isn't OCed, it could be a motherboard issue. Also can be memory timings issue if you set the memory to run above it's limit.

 

[lenjack]

Likely a memory problem....not that the memory is bad, but you may have it set too fast.

 

[sean2002]

If I set mt FSB to 533Mhz (stock) it will pass fine, but it fails at 536Mhz, ( no 534 or 535 settings) I'm using KIngston Pc-1066 RDRAM 32ns chips