----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Mersenne: Roundoff errors

> Am Samstag, 20. Juli 2002 19:01 schrieb Daran:

> The temp is normal, it shouldn't be over 65 degrees. Try to get a new fan,
> or try to clean your old fan. Dust should be reponsible for the slowdown.

Thank you and everyone else, both on- and off-list, for your helpful
suggestions.  I took the cover off and had a look.  The HSF looked like the
inside of an old vacuum cleaner, so I used a new one on it.  :-)  The fan
speed is now back up to 4600, and the processor temperature has dropped by
10 degrees.

While this is probably what tipped the system into instability, I'm not
convinced it is the sole cause of the problem, if, as you say, 50 degrees is
not excessive.  My prefered contribution to the project for the past several
months has been to do exclusively P-1 testing, but I have taken George's
advice and started a LL run with roundoff checking on - actually a DC, so
that I can check for it's appearence in lucas_v.zip.

> to test your processor, i recommend www.memtest86.com
> it is a memtest in first place, of course, but it also tests the processor
>
> You can test your system with madonions 3DMark 2001 SE. This  program will
> heat up your ram, cpu and grafik card.

Thanks, I will look at these.

> Greetings,
>
> Mohk

Daran G.


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