Prime95: EPIC FAIL

[Dillybob]

My Q6600, which is currently at stock 2.4ghz, had all 4 cores fail the Prime95 Blend Test.

3 of the cores failed after 2 minutes, while the 4th went on for 4 minutes. What could this possibly mean? Do I need a new processor? Coretemp reports temps of about 35 C idle, and 44 C at load.

Please help!

 

[Dillybob]

Could someone please help me? It seems to work fine running the small FFT test (which is mostly CPU based, I think). Does this mean it's my RAM? Windows memory diagnostic shows that I have no problems with my RAM, and they are set at advertised speeds....no overclocking.

The actual error I get on the Blend Test is something like: FATAL ERROR: Value rounded to 0.5; Expected 0.4 or less.

At least, that's the gist of it. Please, can someone help me? Do I need to replace something? The Q6600 is at stock 2.4.

 

[KGB]

Bob,

Welcome to the Forums! :beer:

Try running memtest86 to test your RAM

 

[robisbell]

I have not seen any info showing that it can handle true multi core cpu's, I know it can handle HT P4's.

 

[Dillybob]

I'm thinking it's the ram....however, Nero 5 (which I dug out and installed today), will not allow me to burn discs. Is there a free burning program out there that will allow me to burn an ISO image to make a bootable disc?

 

[robisbell]

CD Burner XP Pro, free and better than Nero, you'll have to do some surgery to the registry after uninstalling Nero before installing CDBXP, so that it will work properly.

 

[Dillybob]

Yeah. It's the RAM. Any recommendations for brands? I need stable, dependable DDR2 (preferably 800mhz). I WAS using Patriot, but I will avoid them from now on. I can't have my memory degrade......

 

[geokilla]

Patriot's fine. Give your RAM a bit more voltage. If it requires 2V and you're only giving it 1.8V, that may be why it's unstable.

 

[Dillybob]

It requires 2.2 volts, and that's what I"m giving it.

 

[Dillybob]

It's all working now. Got new Ram. Thanks for your opinions and advice, guys! 🙂