Okay, I'm still having some hardware problems. I installed and ran memtest
overnight, about 24 passes with no errors.
I grabbed and installed cpuburn 1.4 last night, then ran burnMMX.
It won't run longer than 2 minutes before I get a full lockup that requires a
hardware reset or powerdown and back up.
That from a shell with X running and without.
This is an AMD XP2100, 512megs DDR (PNY) Ram, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, Nvidia
Geforce 4 Ti4200, etc, etc, with nothing overclocked.
The CPU has a 5 1/4, 3000 rpm fan/heatsink attached to it, and BIOS reports 50
degrees celsius for it, and 27 degrees Celsius for the system.
Intense games cause crashes, some with direct references to memory. Example,
Warcraft 3 gives this:
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This application has encountered a critical error:
FATAL ERROR!
Program: C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\war3.exe
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 0023:6F58A844
The instruction at '0x6F58A844' referenced memory at '0x7FF8FE63'.
The memory could not be 'read'.
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The literature with cpuburn suggests that my CPU is not getting cooled enough
but from what I've read, 50 degrees Celsius should be okay, right?
So what does everyone else think? Sure could use some insight. (Tom Brinkman,
you around anywhere? <grin>)
PS Note that all the hardware is basically "new", less than 3 months old.
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