Hi,
At 01:04 AM 1/25/00 +0100, Dieter Schmitt wrote:
>I'm running Prime95 on a PII-400 for 6 days (no overclocking) at
>exponent 9409271. It's produced several outputs concerning
>ROUND OFF ERRORS - the last one is ROUND OFF [0.5] > 0.4
>What to do now? Restart from iteration 1?
The first thing to do is try and figure out if your CPU is
overheating or you have some flaky memory chips. You almost
certainly have a hardware problem of some type.
Prime95 will go back to the last good save file after the error.
So there is a chance your result is OK. The question is "did a
hardware error go undetected?" I have little hard data on this,
but I'd guess several errors of this type mean you have less than a 50-50
chance of producing a good result.
Regards,
George
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