Hi,
At 05:17 PM 9/1/99 +0200, Dennis J�rgensen wrote:
>But in the test I'm running now I've had 4 of these errors
>(exponent just over 8 million). This seems a bit too much to me, am I
>right?
Your result is likely OK. Prime95 recovers well from this error and
it not usually an indicator that undetected errors are corrupting the
results. The readme.txt file gives some ideas as to what the causes
might be.
>I've noticed that they happen as the computer starts.
This is new. The usual cause is a device driver playing a MIDI file.
Probably a driver did not save the CPU state properly while initializing.
>With the 2 last errors I've also noticed that the tray icon appears
>later when the errors happen,
Not unexpected. Prime95 sleeps for 5 minutes after a SUMOUT error.
>Celeron-400 gets 0.314 sec/interation on the exponent I'm running now,
Seems right. Compare it to the PII-400 timings on
http://www.mersenne.org/status.htm Remember that the timings on
that page are for version 19 which is up to 10% faster than version 18.
Regards,
George
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