Prime95 torture test crashes right away but my system seems to be fine?

[shurato]

I have a modest overclock on my 1.33tbird + epox 8k7a. 100mhz cpu o/c + fsb at 138. Prime95's torture test halts right away with an error. "FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.497467041, expected less than 0.4." However my system exhibits no weird crashes or errors and the likes. I can play 3D games for a while and get no crashes. Is my system unstable or am I still not stressing it long enough for it to crash. Longest I've played warcraft 3 was about 2+ hours till I decide I don't feel like playing anymore and not stopping because of a crash. My temps are fine... what other program can I use to stress test my system?

 

[Yeti101]

If you get MotherBoard Monitor 5, theres a program that comes with it called "Heat up"
Theres a link to MBM5 on the sticky at the top of this section.

 

[BeefcakeVA]

Well, there are others out there but you must realize that Prime95 is very demanding. You'll probably find that if you bump the voltage up a notch the Prime errors will go away.

 

[ku]

I had this problem too. I was overclocked and I thought it was my CPU speed that gave errors. Instead, it was ram. I had it running cas 2. It crashed. I ran it cas 2.5 and I got no errors.

 

[shurato]

I have the same ram as you do so this is probably the problem. I never even thought about that. Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[Emrys]

Although this post is a couple days old, I also have the same problem, but I'm not using the same ram, and my system doesn't pass prime95 under defult settings, 2.26 and DDR400- it always seems to round to about .499999...., and Prime95 has never run more than 20min or so, but the system hasn't crashed playing any games or anything else.
Any ideas?

 

[BlvdKing]

Sometimes the motherboard undervolts the CPU even at default settings. Download MBM 5 and see what your vcore is at under load. You may have to bump up the vcore in the BIOS until MBM 5 reads 1.5 volts under load.