On Thursday 24 March 2005 18:06, Luke Welsh wrote: > I think FILEMON and DISKMON may demonstrate that PRIME95 is not to > blame for the MBR grief.
Except that you can't necessarily trust diagnoses made by software running on unreliable hardware ... a certain amount of hopefully educated guesswork is still required to interpret the results. > > Although I have not tried it myself, I suspect that PRIME95 can > be run from a Memory Disk (RAM Disk). If you have a USB pen drive then you could definitely run Prime95 in a folder located on it. About 32 MBytes should be enough to contain Prime95, its support files, log files & save files, even if you're working on very large exponents. Files are not written often enough to cause a problem with "wearing out" flash memory within the normal lifetime of the system, and access speed should not be an issue - especially with newer pen drives supporting USB v2. Needless to say I would still reccomend periodically backing up the working folder to hard disk, preferably on a different system, just in case of a software glitch, hardware fault or someone stealing the pen drive! Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
