Op Sunday 16 March 2003 04:02, schreef Ronald J. Hall: > 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: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------------------------- 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'. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------------------------- > > 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.
Roland , I' m not so sure that the indication of the cpu temp. is always so accurate . A good thing to try is when the machine locks up , reboot emmidiatly (so everything is still hot) , and run the test again . When it is the temperature which gives problems , it now should lock up even faster . a second thing is trying to switch memory as suggested by Ian . Good luck . Bart.
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