Hi, I have just built a system with the following components / operating system:
Abit NF7-S v. 2.0 motherboard Athlon XP 2500+ Barton CPU Zalman CNPS7000A-CU cooler w/Arctic Silver 5 2 x 512mb Buffalo PC3200 w/Winbond CH-5 Radeon 9700 np Fortron 530W PSU Windows XP sp1 I am running the torture test on "blend" to test stability. However, using my default bios settings (default speeds, voltages, memory timings, etc.), Prime95 fails with a "Sorry, this program has to close, do you want to notify Microsoft?" error. If I drill down to the actual error screen, I see a Windows Exception error. I never see any message in the Prime95 window itself about an error or a wrong calculation. My question: is the Windows error I described a symptom of faulty hardware, or is this more likely a software problem? Perhaps I need to reload Windows? I have tried 236, 237 and 238, all with the same results. My system temperatures never exceed 39 C for CPU and 21 C for the motherboard. The failure can occur anywhere between 1 minute and 3 1/2 hours of running the test. Any help is appreciated. _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
