Hello Last Thursday, primality testing (L-L) began on my machine. As I had been told, this phase is the most RAM-intensive part of the operations of Prime95. What I did not expect was that the boot sector of my system partition became corrupted. I first permitted Prime95 to remain installed; I booted to the Recovery Console (installed on my machine as a boot-time option) and typed FIXBOOT. The system partition was repaired. The next time I attempted to boot to the desktop, I again encountered a problem with the boot sector. I uninstalled Prime95 and executed FIXBOOT. Since then, there has not been a problem.
You will say �It is impossible for Prime95 to do anything with the boot sector.� I will agree with you. All I know is what I saw. And no, there are no viruses, worms, trojans, etc. on my machine. I ran my antivirus software and all three of my anti-spyware/trojan utilities. I keep my definitions up to date and run those tools quite often. Something corrupted my boot sector. By coincidence, the corruption happened on the same day that Prime95 began primality testing. By similar coincidence, the corruption stopped when Prime95 was uninstalled. hmmmmm. Tom Duda _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
