-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GANNS.com wrote: > Not that I have much to add, but I can confirm how sensitive Prime95 can be. > I had overclocked a previous system and was pleased that all of my business > and entertainment software appeared to function normally, but then Prime95 > would give *some* error and quit calculating *some* stage. Clocking back to > the proper frequency satisfied Prime95, so I left things alone, assuming > that if Prime95 detected problems, then worse could be the *undetected* > problems with my data down the road. I would suggest Prime95 to any > overclockers, regardless of their desire to discover new primes. > > Erle > > http://GANNS.com > Games, Science, Technology, Humor > Tell your friends about GANNS.com or I will cut you in the face. > > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Blosser >>Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:16 PM >>To: 'The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list'; 'Tom Duda' >>Subject: RE: [Prime] Unexpected and baffling problem >> >>Since Prime95 is a processor intensive task, it can easily >>make system errors show up due to overheating. Prime95 is >>used a lot by overclockers to test their systems when they >>increase the chip speed. I'd hazard a guess that the errors >>you guys saw were due to Prime95 taxing your system so much >>that somewhere along the way the disk drivers wrote some bad >>data out to the HD. >> >>What is odd is that most antivirus programs will catch if a >>program tries to write to the boot sector, so if you had one >>running at the time you were running Prime95, I'd be fairly >>certain that the cause is faulty hardware that is showing up >>when Prime95 runs just because Prime95 is taxing your system >>to the point that the hardware errors show up. >> >>I'd be interested to see if you run some other CPU crunching >>program and see if the same behavior manifests itself. >> >>Jeremy Blosser >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Alberto Manuel Bertoli E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:57 PM >>To: Tom Duda; The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list >>Subject: Re: [Prime] Unexpected and baffling problem >> > Tom Duda wrote: > > >>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 > > > hello, > > last weekend it happened something like that, i run WinXP pro > SP2 on PIII-500mhz 196RAM and almost 24h/day runnig prime239, > saturday i've downloaded the prime246 and all went ok, sunday > i was playing diabloII and my pc rebooted but when in the > grub menu (fedora C1) could not load anymore my win > partition... it was deleted, what could be the reason? no > viruses, i use avg and was up-to-date, well the bad point is > that all the work is lost... > > alberto bertoli > i've been torture testing my pc, and the asusprobe gave some volt error in +5, +3.3 and +12, the first thing it could be is the power isnot working properly, and second my cpu is damaged caused by previus overheated working... well i think its time to buy some new hardware thanks for your time alberto -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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