What does this mean in Prime 95?

[mitchafi]

Is that telling me that my overclock is unsuccessful or is it something completely unrelated. It happened after approximately 2 hours of running the torture test, and halted the test.

 

[John]

It means you rig is not stable. Raise your cpu core voltage .05 and try prime95 again.

 

[mitchafi]

I'll just lower the HTT mhz a bit..want to keep stock voltage.

 

[John]

Running tight memory timings can also cause instability if it's pushing the memory too far. If you are running cas 2-2-2-5 try 2-3-3-6 or 2.5 3-3-6

 

[Tab]

1)Your ram either sucks
2)Your ram is o/c'd too much.

 

[mitchafi]

well my ram is pc 3500 mushkin level 1 and I haven't done anything except up the HTT mhz to 219. I left the ram ratio on auto in the bios but I have no idea about CAS...haven't touched that since I know nothing about it.

 

[Markfw]

Just set the HTT to 218, and try again. If it fails, go to 217...rinse, lather, repeat....

 

[mitchafi]

Thing is I set it down to 215 from 220 and it still failed. Does running other programs in the background have any effect on it? My system is stable as a rock at 219 I just decided to run Prime95 out of curiousity.

 

[everman]

Trying a small voltage bump is worth a shot.

 

[bluemax]

Technically, you're over 3GHz already... overclocking isn't worth it if it de-stabalizes your system.
And just because it runs your progs without BSOD doesn't mean it's stable.

Memtest with all systems set to default, normal, non-overclocked speeds and run the test again. If you still get errors, your problems are more severe than just a bad overclock.

 

[Eug]

Is it stable at stock speed? To me, if it isn't stable with Prime95, it ain't stable, period.

 

[xbassman]

Originally posted by: Eug
Is it stable at stock speed? To me, if it isn't stable with Prime95, it ain't stable, period.

Ditto....

If you don't want to raise voltages then lower your overclock until you can run Prime all night error free and Memtest86 (especially test 5)

 

[mitchafi]

Well prime95 torture test just failed after 2 hours. No overclocks nothing, stock settings.

 

[Sid59]

i'd run memtest86 to test your RAM.

 

[mitchafi]

I don't have a floppy drive to make a boot floppy. I downloaded the iso image to make a cd but what do I burn it with? When I go to nero file ----> burn image it doesn't come up. It's an IMG file.

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
I don't have a floppy drive to make a boot floppy. I downloaded the iso image to make a cd but what do I burn it with? When I go to nero file ----> burn image it doesn't come up. It's an IMG file.

choose to show ALL FILES.

 

[mitchafi]

I did that...doesn't read the disc..think it has to be .nrg .iso or .cue to work in nero

 

[The Green Bean]

try downloading the iso version from P95. site!

 

[Markfw]

I have a disc for memtest (CD) that works fine on all my other computers, but won;t work on my K8V. What are your timings set to ? (by SPD) ?

 

[mitchafi]

Everything is set to auto...I haven't changed anything as far as memory because I don't know enough about it. So whatever is standard is what it's set to.

 

[mitchafi]

by the way, I don't see memtest86 anywhere on the P95 site...am I blind?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
by the way, I don't see memtest86 anywhere on the P95 site...am I blind?

http://memtest86.com/

Download from there.

Prime 95 & Memtest86 are different programs.

 

[The Green Bean]

Lol...mybad!!

 

[mitchafi]

Heh, I know I downloaded the program from memtest86.com. I just don't know what program to use to burn the .img iso onto a cdrom. Nothing seems to support burning of .img's. Nero definitely doesn't appear to.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

perhaps the ISO would work better for you.