Message text written by "George Strohschein" > My new AMD CPU reported a sum check error while double checking. I suppose you would change to Intel while it's still possible? Anybody comment? George< George, Please try to include more details in a hardware question. You appear to be wondering about switching from one CPU to another, but this is no longer trivial. I have an AMD K-6 300, an AMD K6-2 400 and a P-II 266 all running prime95. I have had Cyrix PR166, AMD 486DX-4 and Intel P-166MMX and Intel P-133. The upgrade to the K6-2 was about $300 cheaper than to a P-II (and I am still using my old AT case). For most of what I do, it is ok that the K6-2 flops on FLOPs. Switching to an Intel processor need not be the answer. Among Pentium class processors, perhaps it would be a good idea -- the $I premium is pretty low for P5's and prime95 does lots of float so you can get much better throughput. The question is very different for K6, K6-2 and Intel P-II class processors. Unless you plan to swap a new computer within the free look period, I do not know if I would swap. [For one thing, I think you need different CPU sockets or slots for each of K6, P-II/Celeron and Celeron-370. This means a different main board.] The K6 gets double checking and the other two are running first pass LL's. The K6 is the oldest and longest running processor of these three. For a sum check error, I would want to distinguish between some sort of accident or transient and an underlying hardware problem. Maybe you have a bad fan or unreliable line voltages. I have had wierd problems from main boards (bit flipping back in 486DX-33 days on many boards -- made copying unreliable), errors from RAM that got cooked (perhaps from a CPU fan failing so that the P5-133 ran hot). So far, I have not had a CPU fail on me. Can you run any tests (perhaps the prime95 torture test) to bang away on CPU, RAM and HDD? Has the error occurred again? If running Win9X/, do you get the infamous Blue Screens? Good luck! Joth ________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm
