Prime95... killing my Shuttle!

[bluemax]

Memtest OK.
Does it finish and say (DONE) or just keep looping a test forever?
It's been more than an hour and it's only 256MB PC2700!

Now Prime95 is causing it to die during the stress test.

 

[BentValve]

Yes it loops , 1 hour wont do you much good. In fact I have had ram run memtest86 for 24 hours straight with zero
errors and then had Prime95 shoot it down in less than 15 minutes ..it was not the CPU or anything else in the system either.

 

[Krk3561]

Originally posted by: BentValve
Yes it loops , 1 hour wont do you much good. In fact I have had ram run memtest86 for 24 hours straight with zero
errors and then had Prime95 shoot it down in less than 15 minutes ..it was not the CPU or anything else in the system either.

Thats because your CPU couldnt handle the clock but your memory could. Memtest86 only test the stability of your RAM, Prime95 tests your cpu.

I would say 8 loops is enough

 

[Smilin]

Did you disable cache before you started?

 

[BentValve]

Originally posted by: Krk3561

Originally posted by: BentValve
Yes it loops , 1 hour wont do you much good. In fact I have had ram run memtest86 for 24 hours straight with zero
errors and then had Prime95 shoot it down in less than 15 minutes ..it was not the CPU or anything else in the system either.

Thats because your CPU couldnt handle the clock but your memory could. Memtest86 only test the stability of your RAM, Prime95 tests your cpu.

I would say 8 loops is enough

nope , your wrong on that one...new ram took care of the problem.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: BentValve
Yes it loops , 1 hour wont do you much good. In fact I have had ram run memtest86 for 24 hours straight with zero
errors and then had Prime95 shoot it down in less than 15 minutes ..it was not the CPU or anything else in the system either.

yep, same thing for me. (and I was running the ram at 3:4 so don't tell me it's the CPU crapping out in Prime)

 

[bluemax]

Okay.... I need to disable the cache for memtest then?
And I ran Prime95... it ran the benchmarks fine, but it dies ~5 minutes into the torture test.
I'm wondering if it's CPU of just a defective Shuttle SK41G....