p95 question

[nick1985]

i just started the torture test. will it stop on its own after a while? how do i tell if it has erros?

 

[nick1985]

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[conjur]

Pentium 95? Wow...those still run?

 

[iamme]

if it has errors, i believe it'll stop.

 

[Cooljt1]

it will never stop unless there is an error

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: conjur
Pentium 95? Wow...those still run?

....prime95...

anyway, it ran for 6 minutes and it says i have a hardware failure. how do i tell what failed?

 

[nick1985]

^

 

[Confused]

It'll probably be memory or processor. Knock down the memory timings and try again. If not, then knock the CPU speed down and try again 🙂


My rig fails P95 in about 2 mins, but for everything I do, it's fine, so I leave it 🙂


Confused

 

[WobbleWobble]

It loops till you stop it or it comes to an error.

I personally like to make sure my O/C'd systems pass the torture tests for at least 6 hours. I don't have the patience to let it run 12-24+ hours...

But run Memtest86 to see if it's the memory. It'll help isolate the problem.

Edit: Typo

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
It loops till you stop it or it comes to an error.

I persoanally like to make sure my O/C'd systems pass the torture tests for at least 6 hours. I don't have the patience to let it run 12-24+ hours...

But run Memtest86 to see if it's the memory. It'll help isolate the problem.

I run Memtest86 first to isolate memory problems (prime95 doesn't pick them up as well or as quickly as memtest86 does), and if I can complete a few rounds of that, then I run Prime95 for about the same amount of time as you do, for the same reason (impatience). 🙂

Of course, there are people who say that though Prime95 quits right away with an error, since they can run IE and MS Word without problems, their system is stable. I personally am much more conservative on the overclocking and on my definition of "stability" - my system is overclocked and uses aggressive memory timings (with high quality memory), but has been going strong for 20 days (I regularly use VMWare, Photoshop, and other stressful applications).

 

[WobbleWobble]

Well, I didn't state it before, but yeah, like you, I like to run both Prime95 and Memtest86 🙂

 

[Mitzi]

You can run different types of torture tests in Prime95 to stress different parts of the system...try running each one and see what happens.

My seconday rig (old Celeron 300) fails when running the memory intensive test after a couple minutes but will run the other tests endlessly without problem.